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I’d counted. I’d counted 35 times a minute. 35 times hitting the water then resubmerging only to be rapidly plummeted in again. I could barley breath; sometimes I couldn’t take a breath at all. We had been doing the same thing for one hundred meters. Not even half way and I could feel my body starting to cover in pain. Every stroke got heavier, harder to pull and even more rushed then the last. I wanted to loosen my feet from their entrapment and jump out into the murky green water. My head pounded with emotions running through my mind. People say you can only feel pain in one place at a time but I could prove them wrong. I needed to scream as I felt my muscles almost tear when I pushed harder on my stretches, I had no spare energy to waste. My body was alert that I needed air. The last four strokes my breath had paused, I’d