In swimming we also are headed into a new phase in our were especially with the gold and prep groups where we will increase our intensity as we head into the next few meets some of which will have a championship format. Think of these as your midterms as we move closer to our championship season that will be here sooner than you think.
We have preached to you all a lot about putting yourself in a position to be successful, and as coaches that is what we try to do during practice especially when we have sets that involve race strategy. We spent a lot of times working on learning our pacing for your 100's and 200's in the attempt to ease your stress and allow you to swim those events with a lot of confidence.
Some take aways from the workouts. first and foremost channel your energy at the meet, during the warmups, and during your warm downs, then go out and swim YOUR race. What do we mean by this? Simply put we want you to channel that energy into your race and stop wasting energy both mentally and physically on factors that are out of your control, such as times, competition, and what your doing after the race. Like your parents in their work, you are there to do a job and that is to race thats it, so put your best mental and physical effort into it.
As for the events, for those long events we worked on finding that easy speed off the start using those legs softly and saving them for that last sprint to the finish. We also worked on the differences between the different strokes and how you want to approach them so if your still unsure, let's talk.
Bottom line find an excuse to win instead of looking for excuses to fail. Look around and say to yourself, "this is going to be tough, but it's not going to last and if I fail let me fail greatly."
For those of you who normally practice on Saturday, if your not in the meet that day we will be having practice at normal time at St. James. 9:00-10:30.
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