1. This way-too-accurate pun:
2. When you're gasping for air on the wall:
3. Your face when you're doing underwater 25s:
4. When you just can't seem to stay on the interval:
5. But this is your face when someone is swimming up your ass:
6. Or when you make contact during a pull set:
7. Your non-swimmer friends who just don't get your lifestyle:
8. When you think you're done with a rough set but you're so, so wrong:
9. When you act upset in front of your coach when you have to end a set early:
10. When you try to act brave before swimming this event:
11. This, because the struggle is so, so real:
12. Trying to hop into the pool before a meet like:
13. When you do this and have to make sure your coach doesn't catch you in the act:
14. When you realize your hair is ALWAYS going to be like that:
15. Waiting, waiting, waiting:
16. Being a freestyler and realizing your teammates can't keep their hands to themselves:
17. Your coach DEFINITELY looks like this during the summer:
18. The marks that never, ever go away:
19. And when they're on, things aren't much better:
20. Trying to do math WHILE swimming like:
21. When you're swimming in a lake or an ocean just WAITING for a shark like:
22. Doing dryland like:
23. Pretending your a mermaid or sea creature while you're warming down:
24. What you permanently smell like:
25. The most excruciating pain ever:
26. Trying to reason with your coach at the end of practice:
27. Basically your uniform when you go to class after practice:
28. And finally, the fact that your stomach is basically a bottomless pit:
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