Make no mistake, wherever you find yourself swimming this is YOUR CHAMPIONSHIP meet. Your last races of our short course season, a time to embrace, a time to relax and a time to swim FAST. If you have put in the time, the effort and worked hard it’s time to see it come to
fruition.
For the next few weeks take the time to work on the little things such as starts, breakouts, underwater’s, turns, finishes and race strategies so that as you step up onto the blocks to race that there is no doubt in your abilities. This is not the time to go into panic mode with a lot of questions. That time has passed, and all you can do now is work on the things that you can control. The biggest thing that you can do right now is keep showing up, work hard and work on your positive mindset. With that positive mindset the possibilities over the next few meets are endless, however you can’t just say the right things in fact you don’t have to say a thing to anyone. All you need to do is say it to yourself and believe what you are saying. Sometimes that is hard like everything else. It also takes practice like everything else.
So, what can you do now to get ready for your championship meet? The very first thing is to decide on "the list" of events that you want to race. Things to consider to set yourself up for success; are relays a possibility? How much recovery time will you need between events:? Chance of swimming at finals? That is a hard one because at this level except for the first few seeds everyone is fighting for those spots. Talking about finals, I catch a lot of swimmers talking about finals first thing in the morning. Bad Move. You still need to RACE prelims to get there. When racing in prelims most of you if not all of you will have to at least race your seed time to have a shot. Have a plan to succeed, failure to plan is planning to fail.
LATER
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