Three Days, Three Penguins.
Lord, I hope I have some Penguin Swag on Saturday! Just look at those guys, cool, confident, ready for anything. Yesterday, two teammates and I were discussing the fact that while there are some speedy, athletic, graceful swimmers on our team, the three of us are definitely the B Team. The slower ones, the ones most likely to elicit eye-rolls from our extremely patient coaches, the most likely to forget our goggles, prone to injury, real or imagined, oh yeah, that would be us. We've decided to call ourselves Group W, which will make sense to Arlo Guthrie* fans. We're owning our lovable loserness, our outsider cache, our "always picked last" personal narratives, because it's a testament to how far we've come.
On Saturday, it won't really matter how cool we are. What will matter is how far we've come and how well we handle those last three miles of the journey. All of us have come so far. I look around my team at people who have gained skills and speed, sure, but I also see people who have become more confident, stronger and slightly more insane. Together we have raised as a team, 33,771!!! Personally, I am still $875 away from my goal. Can you help?
*Link may be NSFW
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