Transition From A Mongoose Bike

I slam the bike stop to the ground with all my might. I plop one foot to the ground and hop off my Mongoose bike. I am in the transition from biking to swimming in the Conejo Valley Reverse Triathlon. I am currently in first place because I’m pretty sure I overlapped everyone in my 4 laps of biking. I need to transition from biking to swimming fast so I don’t lose my lead. But first, I need my goggles. I look down the road from the easy obstacles and see another biker come down the road. I scan the area and spot my dad. I wave to my dad.
“Hand me my goggles!” I yell to my dad as he hurries over to me.
He shoves the goggles into my hands so hard, I nearly have to regain my balance. I pull the elastic bands and tighten them over my head as I jog towards the pool
Once I get two feet from the wall, I curl up into a ball and flip while blowing bubbles. If I don’t blow bubbles, water will get into my nose. I put my hands into a streamline above my head and push off of the wall. I do some dolphin kicks and then when I am about one foot from the surface, I break my streamline and start my usual stroke routine in the opposite direction. Before you could snap I was already at the other end of the pool, the side I had hopped into. I did another flip turn. The taste of salt has been in the Conejo Valley pool every time I had went but I hadn't been in the pool at all this morning so the taste was very surprising.
“I can’t believe the taste is still in my mouth.” I thought. I keep trying to spit the taste of salt out of my mouth but it would not give up. I tried again and again but the taste would not go away.
I get halfway to the other end of the pool. I start to feel my lower half start to droop in the water. I say happy words like “I can do it” or “almost there!” The words pump me up for only a short bit of time. But then the words get drowned out. I get to the wall and do my last flip turn. I push off the wall and start my strokes