As noted in "Swim Rant" I was DQ'd in the 100 M BR yesterday,after swimming a really great race for me(unfairly I believe.)I was talking to Laura Val who was DQ'd in the 200 BK after a WR time(unfairly she thought).She thought we should have a thread to ventilate,commiserate,etc.Has it happened to you?How did you cope?
I felt like leaving the pool and not competing any more,for about 5 minutes,then I felt really sad for about an hour. Then I woke up at 2:30 in the morning and had a terrible time going back to sleep.Finally I decided to focus my emotions on my next swim.Fortunately for me that worked and I swam a 50 M BR that I was really happy with.If I had swum a lousy 50 I suspect I'd still be in a funk.
So what about you?
By the way,we don't need to limit this to DQs,any meet disappointments that you want to vent about are fair game as far as I'm concerned.
any meet disappointments that you want to vent about are fair game as far as I'm concerned.
I blew my taper last month. I'm not sure how though. I can't figure out why I didn't have the energy to race well on the day of the meet. But there I was, with my arms barely breaking the surface of the water at the end of the 200 fly, piano on my back even though I didn't go out too fast on the first 100.
I might never taper again. I can do better with standard meet prep and a shave-down.
Sorry to hear about your DQ Allen. I think one key lesson for both of us is that we need to enter more than one SCM meet per year. I should have entered the Hood River meet back in May; I didn't because it would have been a rather long drive. Seems trivial now.
any meet disappointments that you want to vent about are fair game as far as I'm concerned.
I blew my taper last month. I'm not sure how though. I can't figure out why I didn't have the energy to race well on the day of the meet. But there I was, with my arms barely breaking the surface of the water at the end of the 200 fly, piano on my back even though I didn't go out too fast on the first 100.
I might never taper again. I can do better with standard meet prep and a shave-down.
Sorry to hear about your DQ Allen. I think one key lesson for both of us is that we need to enter more than one SCM meet per year. I should have entered the Hood River meet back in May; I didn't because it would have been a rather long drive. Seems trivial now.
