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What are you supposed to do when your coach goes insane and is attempting to kill you?
 I'm not saying  one practice. I'm saying all practices for a month (thats eight every week) she's giving you and your teammates ridiculous sets that eventually get so difficult because your whole team is so fatigued that some people are getting sick and falling off of blocks at practice and even at a meet we had.
I don't know if you (reader) know anything about swimming, but for reference a mile is 66 laps. If that was the amount we did in a practice it would be easy. But when the main set is equivalent of 2x that; (132 laps) where you are expected to go "ALL OUT" (asap) and stay off your best times by 1 second with three seconds rest between. All of that AFTER warm up and "pre set" sets that were also ridiculous; and then after swim practice is over the team is expected to get out and go to the weight room for an hour (after a 3 hour swim practice) where the same coach tells you to do weight amount that no female distance swimmer is supposed to do. Again, people falling under the weights that the coach tells them to do and then expected to pick it back up and do it again.
I foolishly thought maybe she was only killing us because we were off for spring break and that it would not be as crazy after, but when I got to practice and the main set was ALL OUT two laps over 2 miles (134 laps) and came to the realization that the entire team is now fatigued, in pain, sick, and because of break everyone is also out of shape so basically the set sucked and my coach continues to be insane.  Coach explaining the set:
Coach: "main set starts with a 200 (8laps) on 2:30, a 225(9laps) on 2:50, and a 250(10laps) on 3:00"
Teammate: "And then do it again. Twice."
Coach: "Yep. and then the next part…"
I am extremely conflicted because this has been my coach since I was eight, she usually makes good choices for us, and she can usually tell when to back off. Talking to her today, she said my sickness/fatigue probably has nothing to do with how swimming has been going.

Ok so I know that was a rant and you probably didn't want to read about that, and I know it was longer than a blog post is supposed to be but it has been a problem and its on my mind right now.