Hi everyone! I am planning to go to my very first (all of my life, I was never a swimmer) meet this month...and am freaking out already!!!!! Maybe I should back out before it's too late? See, I am not all that fast and have never performed a start dive from a block.:shakeshead: Our Master's coach is not all that great, he is a nice man just as a coach I don't think I benefit all that much. To my question of how to make my breaststroke faster his response was "Drink more coffee"!!!:frustrated: I did get a private coach to help me but not sure if that's enough..... What should I do? Are all the odds against me? I was looking forward to this meet when it was 2-3 months away, but now......The meet is in 3 weeks..... Help!!!!!:notworthy:
Well, I guess I'm a "grandma" b/c I have gone off the side and started from the water. I practiced block dives, but in my few meets, I was still too uneasy to do them in an actual race, and ppl assured me that it was fine to start either in the water or off the side. Sure I'll eventually give the blocks a try in a meet but since I was doing the meets for fun (and my times won't set the world on fire ... the opposite, I think), I thought it better to start within my comfort zone and do my best, not worry about what anyone else was doing. I remember taking a weight training class, and the instructor reminding us all the time, "this is YOUR workout. Don't be intimidated by the people benching 100-200 pounds. You're here for you, not them."
That's what I try to take into any swim or run workout, race, meet, although sometimes I do better w/ that than other times. If someone wants to say I'm a grandma, that's their problem!
I think it's cool you're doing a meet. Don't let anyone mess w/ your mind!
Well, I guess I'm a "grandma" b/c I have gone off the side and started from the water. I practiced block dives, but in my few meets, I was still too uneasy to do them in an actual race, and ppl assured me that it was fine to start either in the water or off the side. Sure I'll eventually give the blocks a try in a meet but since I was doing the meets for fun (and my times won't set the world on fire ... the opposite, I think), I thought it better to start within my comfort zone and do my best, not worry about what anyone else was doing. I remember taking a weight training class, and the instructor reminding us all the time, "this is YOUR workout. Don't be intimidated by the people benching 100-200 pounds. You're here for you, not them."
That's what I try to take into any swim or run workout, race, meet, although sometimes I do better w/ that than other times. If someone wants to say I'm a grandma, that's their problem!
I think it's cool you're doing a meet. Don't let anyone mess w/ your mind!
