-You get excited when your coach has practice at 7 am because you get to sleep in.
-You have never experienced what they call an “off-season”.
-You complain if the water is warmer than 81 degrees F.
-TAPER--A godsend
-You actually love pain.
-You can leave the wall in the middle of a sentence, come back to the wall, and pick up the conversation right where you left off.
-You cringe when you think about New Year’s Eve.
-You would win an eating contest against a football player.
-You constantly have cuts and bruises on the back of your right hand from trying to do butterfly in the end lane.
-The phrase "This set with fins" is better than hearing "You just won $1000."
-You almost gotten into a fight with the lane line during that backstroke set in the summer.
-You have permanent raccoon eyes
-You have wet clothes/towels hanging on every available doorknob in your room
-There is no such thing as a low-carb diet.
-You know of at least 5 different ways to adjust your goggles in advance of diving in for warm-up.
-You barely recognize fellow swimmers when they have dry hair and normal clothes on.
-You always smell like chlorine
-Your skin is ALWAYS dry.
-You can eat whatever you want and not gain a single pound.
-You have a permanent suit tan.
-You find yourself doing random shoulder stretches at random times during the day.
-You pretty much know how many tiles there are from one end of the pool to the other.
-You dread vacation.
-You know who Justin Case is, and you love looking for him.
-When you go to the pool with friends, you can’t help but to break out a few strokes and/or flip turns.
-You critique the way people swim on TV or movies, because their technique is just AWFUL.
*I did not make all of these up...
