The Benchwarmer Without a Bench

Thursday's swimming practice was one of the worse. When our hour and a half was up, the coaches talked to us some more. Then we did another set. Then more talking. During talks, I shiver and freeze. 20 minutes later we changed the lanelines. They said they needed the whole team, but half the team was sitting around freezing. Finally we got out 30 minutes late. Today, Friday was the meet against Paly. Slept in again. Finally at 2:05 I got out early. Got changed and went to check my events. On the swim team, the coaches choose your events. Meaning you can do something you suck at, or just the hardest event, the 500 yard freestyle (20 laps). Ready to swim and try my best to beat our rival, I checked my events. 2nd race of the match, 2 laps of backstroke of a 8 lap medley relay, and thats it. I thought I would do so much more than that. Disappointed I did my warm up (15 laps?) Got out and waited for my race to come. It took a long time, because the buzzer broke. So they had a whistle. I got next to the starting block. They whistle. I get in the water and get ready. A few seconds. I start thinking When are we starting? Do they say anything? They whistle. Everyone starts. I realize what happened and start late. I do a lap then my goggles fall off. Swimming as fast as I can while balancing my goggles on my head, I finish. My relay team lost. I get out, wait 3 hours, then I have to get back in for team warm down. I HATE TEAM WARM DOWN. I'm already warm outside the water, then I have to jump into the water, get a talk, swim 20 laps, get ANOTHER talk, put on the pool cover then get out. I guess it can be worse, some people didnt swim any race and the coaches still made then warm up and down. But why do so many things on the Gunn swimming team have to be pointless and annoying?