Do the Butterfly

[I don't think you'll care about this but fine, keep reading...]

I think that butterfly is the hardest stroke to do and do well. It's hard because after the first couples lengths, you feel the burn in your muscles and it keeps getting harder and harder to push to the end.

I want to get better at fly. I really want to be fast and be able to do my best. BUT IT'S SO HARD. I'm fine the first 50, I'm okay the second 5o...and after that, I'm basically drowning, last 5o...I'm dead. Dead tired, more like... I feel like I could have been so much better if only I hadn't had that cough and I hadn't missed a little over half of all the practices in May and June. But the time for complaining is over. The time for killing myself, drowning, and working my face off is here.

The thing is, if you have a really really really crappy kick, you're not gonna go very far, unless you have like crazy arms. Also, you won't go very far if you completely forget the fact you have legs...which is me. Yes...I forget about my legs... So now, I have decided that I'm going to pretending that I'm just doing butterfly kick while I'm doing butterfly....so I'm gonna try and forget the fact that I have arms. 'cause you can't really forget your arms during butterfly...it's very hard to forget the things on your side that feel like they keep on gaining weight with every stroke.

I'm really glad I know how to swim. It's easy to impress them non-swimmers...They're all like "OMG! YOU'RE SO FAST" when secretly, you know you're basically last in every race you do.

Dang! My secret's out.


:P