![]() ![]() No matter the cheering or the direction from the coach, no one is going to propel you down the pool but yourself. Swimming is also sport for the internally driven. My swimming friends were my closest friends because I saw them the most, I suffered with them, I laughed with them, I travelled with them, we saw each other in next to nothing for hours on end. Everyone in the pool is pushing each other and not so secretly competing even on practice days. The majority of the time you compete as an individual but you train as a team. Heck, you really only noticed the bottom of the pool when it marked that you were close to the wall. Swimming, for me, wasn't about staring at the bottom of the pool. But the truth is that it was hard to give an answer. ![]() And only asked by people who could never really understand whatever answer I gave. ![]() It was the most common question I got in twelve years of competitive swimming. "How do you just stare at the bottom of the pool for hours on end?" ![]()
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