<p>At my school, this general rule of thumb is often quoted: “Runners can’t swim, and swimmers can’t run.”</p>
<p>Since we do “dryland” as well, though (basically either tons of running or ab workouts or a combo of both), I don’t think the second part of that statement applies to us. And I’m not a bad runner, if I do say so myself. ;)</p>
<p>At my school, generally our varsity is pretty good, but our JV mostly sucks. Especially this year. Quite a few seniors left last season, so a lot of us above-average underclassmen got to move up into varsity, leaving behind the weaker swimmers to do JV.</p>
<p>Haha we do manage to make it fun at some points of the practice, though. Like whenever the pace clock goes to 00:00, we all scream and cheer and have a wild time for a grand total of about 1 second. Unless we’re in the middle of a set, of course-I don’t think it would be a good idea to have your mouth open that wide for that long in a set ;)</p>
<p>We also have tons of team-building stuff that we do to make everyone feel welcome. I love our swim team. I don’t exactly love practice, but I love my teammates (well…except for one of them, who’s an arrogant jerk unfortunately on varsity…), my coach, and our competitions. So I’ve decided that suffering for about three months is more than worth it for what I get in return.</p>
<p>I think its good that you’re planning ahead. I got side tracked freshman year and maybe didn’t make the best choice, and now I have to make up for AP classes and volunteer hours and such. So good for you! But don’t forget to be in the moment and enjoy the present.</p>
<p>Oh I don’t swim year round. Most of our varsity does because they’re on club teams, but I’m not in it and not planning to start being in it at all. I do pre-season training in the fall, though.
Anyway in my state girls’ swimming happens in the winter. November to February. Not sure about other states, but that’s the way girls’ swim works in mine. ;)</p>
<p>But you must lose wo much fitness! I could never do that, I feel awful swimming at the moment and I’ve just had 5 months on only 3 hours a week, but stopping completely :0</p>
<p>Well I do tennis in the spring, so I’m keeping in shape during the school year. And they have a summer pre-season as well if I really wanted to stay in shape.
Swimming is just one of those sports where if you don’t swim for even a week you get a little out of shape. XD</p>
<p>Oh gosh, I hate public speaking, I get scared just to get up to present a project in front of my class. Once I’m up there, I’m usually am OK, it’s mostly in my head, but I talk realllly fast then.</p>
<p>We’re in teams, so I have to listen to another person’s speech (we know it will be 1 of 3 titles) and then question them for 5 minutes. Basically I don’t actually understand it.
I’m alright with small things like class, but I didn’t want to be the speaker in this competition. Just too much pressure!</p>
<p>@CE: Yeah I hate having to talk when the whole class is silent watching me. It’s even worse if we have to stand up and do it. :(</p>
<p>@UKgirl: Pretend that the speaker is your enemy and you’re like a cross-examiner in court. Maybe ask HobbitTon for advice, because looking through his past posts in this thread… :p</p>
Especially this year. Quite a few seniors left last season, so a lot of us above-average underclassmen got to move up into varsity, leaving behind the weaker swimmers to do JV.</p>
So I’ve decided that suffering for about three months is more than worth it for what I get in return.</p>
It’s the honest truth too.</p>
It’s even worse if we have to stand up and do it. :(</p>