Okay, I'm in a complete funk now. At spring nationals this weekend, I had what was probably the worst meet of my career, performance wise. Really can't understand why, as the meet was run really well, I thought I had trained and tapered properly, and everything seemed to be in order. Come competition time, I sucked. Had a so-so 400IM, got dq'd in the 200Br, and just went slow in everything else. Not making excuses, but now I feel horrible. Don't want to train, and I'm almost embarrassed to look at my results.
So now what? How do I get over this desire to quit?
(I know, I'm taking this way to seriously, but I can't shake the feeling of being a failure)
sunruh said exactly what I was going to chime in with.
1. Everyone has poor races / meets.
2. Learn from what went wrong. Figure out what to do differently next time.
If it helps, I had a disappointing meet too. I know why, and can justify my poor swims, but I'm still disappointed. But I still had fun hanging out with my teammates and meeting new people and just being in the atmosphere of Masters nationals.
sunruh said exactly what I was going to chime in with.
1. Everyone has poor races / meets.
2. Learn from what went wrong. Figure out what to do differently next time.
If it helps, I had a disappointing meet too. I know why, and can justify my poor swims, but I'm still disappointed. But I still had fun hanging out with my teammates and meeting new people and just being in the atmosphere of Masters nationals.
