Descriptive Writing Swimming

When you are swimming, it is much harder to remember and do all of these things without getting exhausted, and divisions is where it is really put to the test. With each movement I can feel the water flowing around and through my body, its coldness causing goosebumps to form on my arms and legs. While swimming, I get kicked by other swimmers on accident, and sometimes these kicks leave bright red splotches on my thighs. My skin tightens in the water as it dries up, creating raisin-like wrinkles of my finger and my toes, which only fade hours after the meet. My goggles are tight around my head, and squeezing harshly under my eyebrows and on top of my cheekbones, leaving red indents on my face, and creating a pain that surrounds my head from the tension of the string and rubber. Soon enough, my body warms up to the frigid water, and I finish my warm up with the other kids on my team. As races begin, a rush of adrenaline hits me as I step behind the girls in line waiting to race. I glance to both of my sides, to see who I would be going against. One girl is about six feet tall, with lanky legs and lengthy arms. She has a stern look on her face, focusing on the pool, watching the other swimmers go. The …show more content…
I come up for air, and I grasp loudly for what seems to be nothing, right before I am forced to go back down. I blow out slowly, the bubbles rushing around me, and my throat hungers for more. My goggles become loose on my eyes, and one of the eye pieces begins to let in chlorine. The chlorine burns my eye, as it rushes to fill the entire plastic covering surrounding it. I loose vision in that eye, and try hard not to open it, as the chlorine stings my skin and makes my eyeball completely bloodshot. Despite this, I continue down the lane, in hopes of getting distance on the