Unsinkable by Jessica Long

Author:Jessica Long
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My dad took this picture of me diving into a race. I’ve been blessed to have such a supportive family who tried to come to as many swim meets as they were able to.

I will never forget my coach’s birthday. Davo Denniston had been my teammate in Beijing, and now he got to yell sets at me on a daily basis. On his thirty-second birthday he made us swim a main set of thirty-two 200s at an all-out sprint. That is 6,400 meters of pure pain in less than two hours. I went directly to my bedroom afterward and crashed until I had to get up for weights. Our weight-training session wasn’t much easier. For one hour, my team and I cycled through a circuit workout nonstop. At each station we had one minute to do whatever workout was in front of us, and this went on for one long hour, with the “Happy Birthday” song playing in the background. After that workout, dripping in sweat, our weight coach Amanda took my whole team out back, where Davo was casually sitting on a lounge chair in the bed of a white pickup truck. He was holding a fancy drink and wearing a silly birthday party hat. His idea of a birthday treat was for us to push the truck around the entire OTC. Every time he blew his whistle, we had to sing “Happy Birthday” to him. Once we got back to our original spot, he surprised all my teammates and me by taking us out for ice cream instead of making us swim our second practice. I was exhausted, and my aching shoulders were so thankful for a break that I almost cried.

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