Set the scene
My freshman year I got on my high school team in December. It was my first meet and I was petrified.
Tell the tale
I had to swim the 50 free and was scared to death. My goal was basically to survive. This meant get in the water with goggles intact swim to the other end, hit the wall and come back. As this was my first meet, I was unaware that you had to hit those annoying pad things at the end of your race. Needless to say, my time came up as about two minutes for the 50. Oh well. I knew what to do for the next meet.
Advice
- I find this amusing to look back on the fact that I was terrified of the 50 because I was my teams best distance swimmer this year!
