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.
Ha ha! I did something much like that at a meet yesterday. Sometime between getting on the block and hitting the water, I had forgotten I was swimming *** stroke. I caught myself in time, but my underwater pull was *barely* beneath the surface. I'm sure it was brutally ugly but no DQ.
I did the same exact thing at a LCM meet in June. Don't know what I was thinking, dove in, did at least 5, maybe 6, fly kicks, then realized it was a 50 ***, so I did my arm thing and surfaced. I just did a 90% or so effort to finish, expecting a DQ. But that never arrived. I still finished first in the heat, but was a far cry from any records.
A couple of people stopped by after to give me feedback, all commenting how my 50 *** was paced more like a 200. Then I told them why....
Ha ha! I did something much like that at a meet yesterday. Sometime between getting on the block and hitting the water, I had forgotten I was swimming *** stroke. I caught myself in time, but my underwater pull was *barely* beneath the surface. I'm sure it was brutally ugly but no DQ.
I did the same exact thing at a LCM meet in June. Don't know what I was thinking, dove in, did at least 5, maybe 6, fly kicks, then realized it was a 50 ***, so I did my arm thing and surfaced. I just did a 90% or so effort to finish, expecting a DQ. But that never arrived. I still finished first in the heat, but was a far cry from any records.
A couple of people stopped by after to give me feedback, all commenting how my 50 *** was paced more like a 200. Then I told them why....
