SCY @ GMU

learnings from my first swim meet, this past weekend:

• always circle-swim in the warm-up lanes. otherwise, you run the risk of head-on collisions with cranky competitors who assume you've been doing this for years and just have shit-for-brains.
• no matter now many times your coach has watched your individual medley in practise, you still might get disqualified in competition. twice.
• freestyle is the only stroke where you're allowed to travel backwards to touch the wall if you missed it. because, if you completely swish the wall on a flipturn, you're disqualified.
• after getting deeked and subsequently scolded by the head ref (twice), the possibility of walking into the men's locker-room (in error) is very high.
• even when performed by skilled, fast swimmers, breast-stroke is still a ridiculous endeavor whose only use, as i see it, is to make you appreciate freestyle even more.
• butterflyers are hawt. breast-strokers tend to be stringy. i imagine they taste like squirrel.
• it is possible to finish almost dead-last (or get disqualified) in every single event you swim and still have a blast.

you crack me up, said alicia my neglectful coach. everytime i looked at you, you were trotting around the deck with a huge grin on your face.