19 is a beautiful number, 20 is ugly.
we had our first meet against Notre Dame and Shelton yesterday. we got killed.
my couch had me down to swim 50 fly in the 200 medly relay, 200 individual medly and 500 free. 1 lap is 25 yards, you do the math.
i was fine after the 50, dead after the 200. i got out of the pool and laid down on the deck for 10 minutes. i couldnt move. i am NOT an im-er. so when i was all rested and my whole body didn't hurt anymore, i got up and got in line in lane 3 to do the 500. i stood behind the block with my right foot on it and watched the other people swim. i can't remember what event they were swimming. one of the officials came over to check my name and blah dididdy blah blah blah. i got up on the block. "swimmers get set...GO!" the thingy beeped and flashed and i dove in blah dididdy blah blah blah...the first 200 i thought i wouldn't be able to do it but i did. it gets esay if you don't quit. learned that doing swimathons. we had lane counters so i didnt have to worry about keeping track of what lap i was on so i started singing a bunch of songs in my head to keep me going. when i saw my lane counters hand under the water with the sign that said 19 i thought "wow that is SUCH a beautiful number! 1 more lap 1 more lap!" yea im corny. i turned and pushed off relly really hard and swam as fast as my arms and feet would take me and i hit the pad ("20!!!!!!") at 7 minutes and 29 seconds. and i looked up and the same official that was talking to me before the race was standing over me and he said :"you swam very very well but you can't swim with that thing on your ankle. we had to disqualify you." i had it on since the boat trip on the lady maryland this summer (where i made it)and it was on my RIGHT ANKLE. the very same right ankle that is attached to the very same right foot that was resting on the fucking block when the same fucking official was fucking talking to me before i fucking swam!! so i was pissssssssedddd. and anyways...if anything, a bracelet would hurt my time more than help it so why is it illegal? if anyone knows the answer to that please comment.
so i went to get changed since that was my last event. i went into the locker room and took my comb out of my bag and started combing my hair yadda yadda yadda... so chelsea comes running into the locker room screaming "catherine catherine your not done catherine catherine YOU HAVE TO SWIM NOWWWWWWWW!!!!!" no one told me i was swimming in the 4 x 100 free relay. so i went out and just my luck, i was dead tired and coach put me as the anchor. so i swam as hard as i could and surprisingly pulled us from 5th place to 4th place and all together we scored 48 points in the meet (that SUCKS for all you who can't figure that out on your own).
oh, and while all this was going on, i had my period and MAJOR cramps. welcome to my life.
♥ catherine
PS- TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAYNESS!!i want presents people
my couch had me down to swim 50 fly in the 200 medly relay, 200 individual medly and 500 free. 1 lap is 25 yards, you do the math.
i was fine after the 50, dead after the 200. i got out of the pool and laid down on the deck for 10 minutes. i couldnt move. i am NOT an im-er. so when i was all rested and my whole body didn't hurt anymore, i got up and got in line in lane 3 to do the 500. i stood behind the block with my right foot on it and watched the other people swim. i can't remember what event they were swimming. one of the officials came over to check my name and blah dididdy blah blah blah. i got up on the block. "swimmers get set...GO!" the thingy beeped and flashed and i dove in blah dididdy blah blah blah...the first 200 i thought i wouldn't be able to do it but i did. it gets esay if you don't quit. learned that doing swimathons. we had lane counters so i didnt have to worry about keeping track of what lap i was on so i started singing a bunch of songs in my head to keep me going. when i saw my lane counters hand under the water with the sign that said 19 i thought "wow that is SUCH a beautiful number! 1 more lap 1 more lap!" yea im corny. i turned and pushed off relly really hard and swam as fast as my arms and feet would take me and i hit the pad ("20!!!!!!") at 7 minutes and 29 seconds. and i looked up and the same official that was talking to me before the race was standing over me and he said :"you swam very very well but you can't swim with that thing on your ankle. we had to disqualify you." i had it on since the boat trip on the lady maryland this summer (where i made it)and it was on my RIGHT ANKLE. the very same right ankle that is attached to the very same right foot that was resting on the fucking block when the same fucking official was fucking talking to me before i fucking swam!! so i was pissssssssedddd. and anyways...if anything, a bracelet would hurt my time more than help it so why is it illegal? if anyone knows the answer to that please comment.
so i went to get changed since that was my last event. i went into the locker room and took my comb out of my bag and started combing my hair yadda yadda yadda... so chelsea comes running into the locker room screaming "catherine catherine your not done catherine catherine YOU HAVE TO SWIM NOWWWWWWWW!!!!!" no one told me i was swimming in the 4 x 100 free relay. so i went out and just my luck, i was dead tired and coach put me as the anchor. so i swam as hard as i could and surprisingly pulled us from 5th place to 4th place and all together we scored 48 points in the meet (that SUCKS for all you who can't figure that out on your own).
oh, and while all this was going on, i had my period and MAJOR cramps. welcome to my life.
♥ catherine
PS- TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAYNESS!!i want presents people