With only 83 days to go to Nationals I am kind of starting to get nervous. Will it be worth it to fly all the way up just for competing? Will I do well at the swim meet? Did I have enough time to prepare and did I use this time wisely? Was my new training plan and training schedule working out for me?
Unfortunately I will have answeres to these question only after the swim meet.
83 days are a very short time and it will go by quickly. Coaches say that if you are nervous prior a swim meet means you are ready, otherwise you wouldn't really care. Coaches also say that after the swim meet is before swim meet- you just finished racing and you already starting preparing for the next one or for the next year's event. I do agree with all of that. Unfortunately this is not he case right now. I didn't have an year. In the entire 2010 I was swimming only then and off because of an shoulder injury. In the first 1-2 months of 2011 it wasn't any different. My training times are so inconsistent that I don't really have a clue where I am right now- once I swim close to a PB or even faster, then I simply drawn. So, yes I am damn nervous. Is it possible to be training properly for only 4 months and to swim good times at National level? And what am I going to enter with anyway? I am not a sprinter; I cannot explode off the blogs. I need time to accelerate. But is my stamina enough to keep up my speed and technique over a longer distance? On the other hand as a pure butterflier I have not really a choice of events. Perhaps the smartest thing is to focus on one - the 100m. I will probably swim the 50 fly, whcih is on the first day, toget a feeling of the swim meet. And freestyle as a warm up before the 100m fly. I don't think I will be entering the 200m though. I haven't trained for it at all. I cannot even remember when it was the last time swimming a 200m butterly set in training... It is on the last day of the competition and I have no other events on that day... Should I just do it for fun and see how close to the top 8 I can get? It will hurt... very badly. And I don't like showing weekness. There is nothing worse for me than dying on the last couple of meters to the wall. And with dying I mean really badly dying. When you can barely move foreward.
Just thinking about all this makes me want to go to practice 4 times a day. NO! I need to stay rational and smart. Overtraining won't be in my favour either. I have 2 more months to train hard, one week of each is meant as short training camp) and 2 weeks for tapering. Keep your thumbs crossed for me! I really need lots of good luck.
If you also have any suggestions for me, regarding my dilema, please share it with me.
Keep training smart!
hugs, Nora
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