Take Your Marks
In a perfect world, there would be no testing. You would just be granted a pass on everything you do, with a high five and a Well Done, buddy! to send you on your way. Carl thinks this is the best solution. It would get him out of studying every afternoon for 4 hours while sweating bullets in a panic desperate to make sense of whatever the crazy hieroglyphics are. Like he's gonna use calculus after high school. Pffft. All he wants to do is swim and homework is seriously infringing on his time in the pool. Coach is riding him to get his head in the game. Doing drills, counting off the multi coloured arms on the time clock at the end of the deck. Red, yellow, blue, green. Go on the 15, go on the 30, rest on the red, go on the blue, what's 15 of the 30 divided by the high root of the base over the square of the slash gobbledy gook. Argh. He's supposed to be getting down to a :26 split on his 50 in the 200 free and he's losing time. Workouts in the gym are flagging and slee...