I hate stupid people

Generally, I like to have patience with people.

OK, who am I kidding, I have no such thing. And my patience for stupid people is even less. And that is why swim practice today was brutal. It started out like any normal swim practice. We had a short warm up of 6 x 75 (25 kick, 25 drill, 25 swim), 3 x 100 kick descend, 8 x 25 underwater, and 3 x 100 swim descend.

Then we got right into our main set. We did 20 x 100. There were a couple different interval choices but the point of the set was to hold your best possible average while getting 10-20 seconds rest. There were three of us in our lane and two of us were sure that we could not make interval #1 so we opted to do #2: holding 1:15's but leaving on the 1:40. The third person in our lane (whom I will just call D for "dummy") said, "oh c'mon, we can make 1:20." Coach Andy hears him say this and says, "the point isn't to make the interval, it is to hold your best possible average while getting 10-20 seconds rest." So D just says, "whatever", and we start the set. He decides to go second in our lane. After only 2 or 3 100's, D is already frustrated and says to Andy, "How am I supposed to get faster with all of this rest?" Andy of course responds that we are not supposed to be getting faster but D is just so worried about improving his speed. Andy explains that this is an endurance set and if you do it correctly, it will get harder and harder as you try to maintain that best possible average as your body starts to get tired. D doesn't believe him, takes over our lane, and continues to bitch after EVERY SINGLE 100!!!!!!!!

Finally, we hit #8 or 9 and he starts to feel the burn. So now instead of questioning the coach's workout, he complains after every one that he is dying, that he is not going to make it, and that this is so hard. Mind you, while D is complaining, Patrick and I are rocking the set, maintaining our average, and feeling great. We finally finished our 20 x 100 and D had nothing positive to say. I loved today's practice and felt great afterwards. Had I been able to drown D in the middle of the set, it would have been even better!

So, stupid people aside, today was a great day. And for those of you that are like my good friend D, listen to your coach, suck it up, and quit your bitching!