Swimming

Swimming is a sport that I have done since I was 6 years old. I recently joined my high school swim team, and the practices are brutal. We swim 5000 yards a practice, on average. But it's not respected. People think of swimming, and they think of a bunch of people standing around in a pool. But it's not like that at all. In football, we had an hour and 50 minutes of technique, and 10 minutes of conditioning. Swim team is an hour and a half of conditioning. I'm not saying football is easy. I'm just saying that swimming is worse. I try to tell this to people, and they don’t listen. They don’t care. They want to think that swimming is easy, and that everyone who swims is a wuss. Only people who swim or have swam before understand it. And that’s the it’s always going to be. Swimming is never going to be respected like other sports. No matter what happens, it will be below sports like football, baseball, basketball, and soccer. It’s not fair, and it doesn’t make any sense, but that’s the way it is. And that’s the way it is always going to be.