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Swim Practice at CIS

  My first practice on the swim team was Monday, 5 September. This was my first practice since I did swim team at my middle school in 8th grade. We jumped in the water for our warm up and it felt so familiar to me, I just wanted to go super fast, but since I haven't swum in so long, I'm definitely not that fast yet. We warmed up with about a 200 of freestyle. While we were swimming, the coaches were watching to decide who would be staying in the 25-meter pool and who would be moving to the 50-meter pool. They then picked about 5 of us and we went to the 50-meter pool. There we did a 200 alternating between a length of freestyle and a length of backstroke. After that, we did a couple backstroke drills that added up to 400 meters. Since it was the first practice we had gotten in the water late, so that is all we did for the practice. I really liked being back on a swim team. I am definitely not in the best shape for swimming right now but I wasn't really expecting to be, giv...