“WIN”. What’s Important Now

  No matter who you are, what you do, or how good we are which includes you the swimmer we all have to wake up in. the morning and face the new day.  If your lucky enough as a swimmer you may also have the opportunity to witness one or two incredible 🌅 sunrises in your journey.   It doesn't matter if you happen to be a night owl because eventually the sun will still rise and you get to begin a new day with endless opportunities.  You must decide how to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to you. The morning sunrise brings with it new beginnings where you can put to bed that bad race or meet that you have just come off of, or maybe yesterday's workout left a little to be desired.  What ever the issue's were the morning brings with it the endless possibilities and the chance to do a little better.   Maybe your the swimmer who has never experienced a bad day (lucky for you) and what I will say to you is this, Why should you expect today to be any diffe

  How's your swimming doing.  After the long course meet I sat down and struggled to nail down a topic for you all that just might strike a cord with some of you.  You see I left that meet somewhat frustrated in the fact that so many of you felt disappointed in your races and I could not understand why.  Was it the fact that expectations were too high?  Maybe you were not clear on how to set expectations or goals.  Was it me and the way I set you up for expectations?  I didn’t know the answer but what I did understand was that more than a few of you needed help if we were going to move forward with any confidence. Some things that we knew going into the meet included the following; First long course meet since 2019 Times in meet sheet were at least 2 year old Many new events were going to be swam, thus an abundance of N.T. Many mako swimmers making their first appearance in a long course meet And now the big questions.  What were your expectations?  What were your coaches expectati

   Over this past season we have touched on a variety of topics, meets, attitudes, positive self talk, and how we look at results.  After reading a message from Oliver Leroy about getting better, I went back to our book on conquering the pool to gather some thoughts and if your wondering, yes we will be talking about practice and how you approach it as an athlete. When you think of getting better most of your focus is geared to your races at meets and that end result, the final time, but what about getting better at practice.  How do you approach practice each day has a lot to do with your success at meets.   There is a thing called mindless swimming where your mind is swirling around like a tornado just wrecking havoc on everything you are trying to accomplish. Look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself this 🙋‍♀️ question, do I fit one of the following swimmer modes. 🏊‍♀️ “The swimmer who has huge goals for their season, but struggles to put big chunks of high-grade effort in p