This morning I was feeling reaaaalllllly crappy in the pool. I've been fighting a cold and this morning during warmup it seemed like the cold was winning. I was going to more or less pack it in with a short main set, but after the first couple 75 flys I decided that if I want to hit my time goals in the fall, I'd better suck it up. Extending the main set to 600 total fly felt like a victory, under the circumstances. And my stroke count never exceeded 8, that was good too.
Time goals, SDK's, and stroke counts are something I can control. I can't control who enters meets and events, who scratches or DQ's, who gets hurt, and so on. If I focus on rivalries, it's a very weird empty feeling when I look at the psych sheet and find that a rival entered different events than I expected. Or isn't there at all! If I focus on placement (e.g. "I want to earn a medal in this event") then it might work out great or the event may turn out to be stacked with ringers. I do like to shoot for Top Tens but if I hit my time goal and don't make Top Ten, the most you'll hear from me is :badday:
This morning I was feeling reaaaalllllly crappy in the pool. I've been fighting a cold and this morning during warmup it seemed like the cold was winning. I was going to more or less pack it in with a short main set, but after the first couple 75 flys I decided that if I want to hit my time goals in the fall, I'd better suck it up. Extending the main set to 600 total fly felt like a victory, under the circumstances. And my stroke count never exceeded 8, that was good too.
Time goals, SDK's, and stroke counts are something I can control. I can't control who enters meets and events, who scratches or DQ's, who gets hurt, and so on. If I focus on rivalries, it's a very weird empty feeling when I look at the psych sheet and find that a rival entered different events than I expected. Or isn't there at all! If I focus on placement (e.g. "I want to earn a medal in this event") then it might work out great or the event may turn out to be stacked with ringers. I do like to shoot for Top Tens but if I hit my time goal and don't make Top Ten, the most you'll hear from me is :badday:
