By Ailish Dougherty, Swimming World College Intern
It’s hard to describe that moment right before a race. I’ve heard of that mystical phenomenon of getting “in the zone,†where the noise, the movement, the thoughts in your head fade into the background and all you can see is the clear blue water underneath you and the opposite end of the pool in the distance. Confident and focused.
For me, it seems as if every thought I have ever had about my 10-year swimming career suddenly decides to appear in my brain. My hopes and goals, my anxieties and doubts, each a different voice shouting to be heard, until I take a final breath and the voices are silenced by the crisp splash of the water, my breaths echoing in my ears, the sharp whistles of the coaches.
Behind my every determined stroke is the memory of that killer morning practice, that time I chose to swim instead of go out with friends, that utter pain and fatigue at the end of a three-hour workout. My only goal in every race is to meet the expectations I have set for myself: to drop time, to improve in any way I can, to validate my hours upon hours of hard work.
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