YOUR RACE

 

It’s race day and if your like most young athletes the most important thing is the result of your competition.  Coaches are evaluating many different things during the competition, but we are human and the results    are important but not the end all.  

Speaking for myself, one of the things I really look for and that you absolute  control of is, EFFORT.   You see  results can come in a variety of ways ranging from good, bad and downright ugly, but the effort that you put into those results is what matters the most.  Think about it and I know you have because during those little feedback talks after your race I hear a lot of  “ I think I could have done better” or “ I could have gone faster.”  What are you waiting for? No better time than the present.  I see it in your faces sometimes yes the results were good bu t in your ❤️ you know you had more to give and that feeling can be devastating to a young swimmer.

You might ask yourself this, “ Am I applying myself as much as I can and giving it my all?”  Hopefully you can all answer an astounding yes to that question and if you can than take comfort that you gave all you could in that one moment.  As a coach that’s all I could ask for, but more importantly that is all you can ask of yourself regardless of the results.  You can never do better than your best and that is what you should be celebrating because effort is a constant unlike results that can be influenced sometimes by things out of your control.  You control your effort and as long as you have swam as hard as you possibly could at that moment in time, the scoreboard doesn’t matter and you are king or queen for the day in my book.