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Where Would I Be Without Swimming?<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Grace Hoffmann<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been swimming for 15 years and can honestly say that I have never met a swimmer who has said that they have always loved the sport. If you’re out there and love swimming 100 percent of the time,\u00a0then kudos to you! That’s truly something special. However, for the vast\u00a0majority of the swimming community, not every day is great. In fact, no where near every day is great.<\/p>\n

Swimming is a sport in which the training is hard and results may or may not come. We push ourselves everyday with the hopes that we’ll drop time in maybe one race. Is\u00a0the amount of training that you put yourself through really worth the .01 time drop? If I take practice out of the equation, then maybe I could have a job. I could spend more time with my family and friends.<\/p>\n

The options seem endless if you think about it, so why keep swimming?<\/p>\n

The Beginning<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Kara Sekenski<\/p><\/div>\n

Nylon caps (because latex hurt too much) and goggles that are decorated with fish on the sides. Swimming was a fun after school activity. Maybe you started off at a summer pool and the league was so much fun that you decided to join the year-round team. You got to meet new people at practice and make new friends! Traveling with mom and dad to your meets where you got ribbons after every race, and an additional one if you won your heat– well that was even better.<\/p>\n

The sport seemed too perfect. Yes, your parents may have complained quite a bit about how long the meet took, but your 25 yard freestyle race was your time to shine. Then as you got better, and started moving up to the next age group, the sport seemed to get more intense. Competition between your best friends and teammates started. Practice became a race. Suddenly the sleepover you wanted to go to Friday night wasn’t possible because of Saturday morning practice. But of course when your teacher asked what you did in your free time or what your favorite sport was, the answer was always the same: swimming.<\/p>\n

The Challenge\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Taylor Brien<\/p><\/div>\n

If you kept swimming through middle school and into high school it became the norm for you. Your identity was “swimmer.” The struggle of balancing the 3 S’s (school, swimming, and social) was extreme. A lot of the kids you swam with growing up decide that it was not worth it anymore. They stopped swimming and you didn’t blame them. You just didn’t feel the same way as them. Your best friends became the people who saw you at 5 a.m. Other people just didn’t understand. Year after year you start to understand that the summer sport your parents signed you up for had become a job.<\/p>\n

Reality<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Photo Courtesy: St. Thomas Swimming<\/p><\/div>\n

After a grueling practice, especially if you failed in a set or had to keep repeating it until you made a time cycle, swimming seems horrible. From personal experience, I have heard the aftermath of a bad practice on the pool deck and in the locker room. Swimmers can speak terribly of the sport that they claim to love.<\/p>\n

Why would they be swimming if they didn’t love it? Who puts in 20+ hours a week of training just to complain about it everyday? A swimmer does. It’s easy to love swimming and it’s easy to hate it.<\/p>\n

The truth behind it all is that not everyone can do it. Swimmers are unique. Swimmers are all borderline\u00a0insane. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is not easy to do. But\u00a0I don’t know where I would be without swimming.\u00a0The highs and the lows will always occur in life. Swimming has taught me how to pick myself up when I fall down. It’s taught me about myself– who I am and who I want to be. If you think long and hard about your relationship with swimming (yes, it is a relationship; quite a rocky one if I say so myself) don’t focus on the bad days. Instead of “Where<\/em> would I be without swimming?” maybe the focus should be on “Who<\/em> would I be without swimming?”<\/p>\n

All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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