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Print this entrySwimming Question of the Week - May 6, 2009
Just as with today's question, has your coach ever shown up late for practice, and if so, did you secretly wish he or she didn't make it?
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Never. He was never late and I never wished he would cancel a practice. Once he wasn't able to attend a practice on Monday, but he knew about that in advance and gave us the session written on a paper. Some of the swimmers didn't swim at all, as expected. The rest had to kick each other’s butts... it's weird when there is no "red dot" (our coaches have to wear red shirts and black shorts, and when you swim you don't see much more but a red something moving up and down the deck. among all the people there, the "red dot" is our coach :D) on the pool deck and there is no feedback. |
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Sometimes, but it don't make me happy. |
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Only with my masters team - once or twice our coach didn't show up at all. It's a great feeling of camraderie when a senior-ranking swimmer steps up to the plate and sacrifices his pool time to draw up a workout on the spot. |
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I used to remember days back in high school... when practice started at 4:45 and lasted for 2-1/2 hours... On a very snowy day, we waited and waited... pool locked... almost praying that there wouldn't be another set of headlights pulling into the pool... just to get ONE morning off. I'm not sure who it was that decided to pull out, but that seemed to do the trick. Just as they got to the exit, there was almost a stuntman like sideways turn sliding into the parking lot... it was coach. Now THAT was a sinking feeling, and I'm not ashamed to admit I really just wanted to go back to sleep. :) |
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