Senior Swimming Sports

Swimming Sports

BANG! I flew into the water, I flopped onto my tummy.

We went to the big, warm Stanmore Bay Pools /Leisure Centre for swimming sports. As I walked up, the tiles were wet so I nearly slipped over. I could hear my friends in Rimu cheering me on. At the beginning of the race I saw my nana punching the air twice up and down, my mum held the thumbs up sign, and at the end of the race I saw their lips moving. They must have been saying “Go Anya go Anya.”

I was by the pool, thinking this stroke is amazing, this stroke is my favourite stroke….breast-stroke. I had a swarming thousand butterflies in my tummy. I was so nervous it felt like my head was going to explode. I was as energetic as Speedy Gonzales.

The pools were long, a good length for the year fives and sixes to do swimming sports.

Anya

Swim Sports

“Could I please have the freestyle B girls ready”  those words were destined to be used to frighten me. I was frozen with terror.But eventually I relaxed I knew that even if my parents were not there they would be proud of how far I had gotten. At once I lowered myself into the water, shock surrounded me it was freezing! 3,2,1 GO!!! I held my breath as cold water enclosed me in its grasp.

As I dive into the water feelings and emotions arise sealing me inside. Coldness encloses me in its frozen grasp as I start to sink into the darkness. Desperate to escape,terror surrounds me. My emotions mix I’m relaxed one minute,desperate the next,than brave,followed by a terrifying fear,followed by courage which overcomes my fear. I arise from the darkness because I am happy,happy and overjoyed at how far I’ve come and the urge,the urge to compete is powerful. I was suddenly confused my emotions stirring like batter...Was I joyful or scared? Calm or frightened?

How would I ever decide?

‘Swim to your goal Melitz,finish what you started!’

I believed in myself. I am proud of how I raced despite coming last but still I am proud of myself because I found something to work on and I challenged my personal best to the limit.

I scramble out of the pool and pace up to the point stand hand in my points and stride back to the bleachers. I look around the the arena, all around me is a crowd of students cheering for their house,opposing me are the parents cheering like parrots for their children,in front of me is mrs Thompson speaking into the microphone which is then emitted into a humongous elephant like voice,to my left are students lining up for their race

Melitz

Swimming Sports

As I saw the swimmers take one big gulp. I started walking to the slightly wet bleacherssss ughh..

! “Oh they’re swimming now” I said to Vinny “let’s watch!” “On your marks, get set, GO!” When we walked  in I was slip into the water cause the tiles they are dangerous. The air was so hot, warm, humid. I was gonna burn to death. The bleachers were shiny, glistening in the sun. I could smell chlorine breezing in the air, people said it smelt horrible but I thought it wasn’t that bad.

“Roll the crickets!” ‘10 minutes later’ “Ugh what banana, crackers, nuts, ooh almond nuts!” We had to sit down for the entire swimming sports which was like 4 hours! It was so tedious. I was so bored I felt like my brain was gonna ooze out of my ears. I was sleepy, so sleepy I thought I was about to die!!! It was so time-consuming. I felt a lot like jelly, I couldn’t feel my legs, my arm was in pain and I kinda had a headache.

Swimming sports was to see ‘who was the best at swimming!’ Oh and to see if you drown😏 I felt dead, but about the swimmers, I wasn’t really watching.

Kian

Swim Competition

Splash goes my arm against the water as I go under it.

The Stanmore Bay pool was a huge space.

The nice cool water gave me a boost to help me swim. But, the creamy beige slippery tiles nearly made me fall on my face. “Go Mynhardt go, you are going to win this,” I yelled crazily. Unfortunately he came last  but he won  in my point of view.  

Before I started breastroke I started in the pool because I was a chicken. I was shivering in the pool because I was so excited. The other races made me very tired. I was very nervous because I wanted to get into interschool.

Actually I liked the competition because I got to race my friends and I liked that it was tiring because I didn't have to do some work at home afterwards.

Connor