Swimming

swimming tweets from @caps.n.goggles on Instagram//account created August 4th, 2016

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no one understands how hard swimming is except for swimmers

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You can easily tell how good of a swimmer someone is just by their goggles

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What it feels like to get into the pool

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The best things your coach could say:
“No morning practice tomorrow!”
“I’m putting you in the 50 free at our next meet!”
“Wow I’m really impressed by you today!”
“We’re doing starts and turns today!”
“Practice ends early!”
“Taper starts soon!”

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Worst things your coach could say:
“There’s gonna be an extra morning practice this week”
“I feel like you would be good at 200 fly”
“We’re running today”
“You don’t seem to be trying very hard” (while you’re sprinting)
“Today’s set is REALLY fun”

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Impossible = trying to explain everything about swimming to a non-swimmer

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When you’re relaxing and then suddenly realize that you have practice in the morning

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The worst two words a swimmer could hear: “stand please”

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You haven’t really played sharks and minnows until you’ve played with a group of swimmers

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This is arguably the most painful time of a swimmer’s year because coming back to swim practice after taking a few weeks off in the summer makes you feel like you’ve never swam before

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When you expected to gain 20 seconds but you actually only gain 10

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When you eat junk food but still practice a lot

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Most swimmers originally joined swimming to get away from land sports/running...and then...eventually...we found out that dryland exists.

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When your coach asks how you went slower than the 10 year olds on the team

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When your coach tells a stupid joke but you want to get out of practice early

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Most of us became swimmers because we couldn’t do any other sports

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At meets you either get a 5 minute break in between your events or a 5 hour break. There’s no in between

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When you tell your coach to sign you up for a distance event as a joke and they actually do

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Me after a hard set

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A list of the reasons why swimming is the hardest sport:

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Coach: we’re still having practice!