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.
And I'll be using this word today.
One DQ in my life when I was 10, and my father DQ'd me. He noticed a very subtle issue with my freestyle, in that the race was the 50 butterfly.
I thought the 200 IM was the 200 free one time in high school... :doh: Another time in college I dropped an arm prior to the last turn of a 200 fly. The first time I swam the 100 fly as a kid, I barely finished, and got DQ'd for uneven arms. All of those DQ's were legit. (Well, the 100 fly DQ probably was, I don't remember the race clearly enough to say. :cane:)
That 200 fly DQ taught me the importance of doing things right in practice so that bad habits don't form. You never know when an occasional bad habit like a one-hand fly touch will pop up in a race. One thing's for sure, you won't be thinking about it when it happens. :bed:
And I'll be using this word today.
One DQ in my life when I was 10, and my father DQ'd me. He noticed a very subtle issue with my freestyle, in that the race was the 50 butterfly.
I thought the 200 IM was the 200 free one time in high school... :doh: Another time in college I dropped an arm prior to the last turn of a 200 fly. The first time I swam the 100 fly as a kid, I barely finished, and got DQ'd for uneven arms. All of those DQ's were legit. (Well, the 100 fly DQ probably was, I don't remember the race clearly enough to say. :cane:)
That 200 fly DQ taught me the importance of doing things right in practice so that bad habits don't form. You never know when an occasional bad habit like a one-hand fly touch will pop up in a race. One thing's for sure, you won't be thinking about it when it happens. :bed:
