By Julia Cunningham, Swimming World College Intern
There have been days when I’ll look at the set and give up on practice before I even jump in the pool. Why is that? What is the point of even showing up to the pool if I’m not there with the 100 percent belief that I am there to improve?
Consider the scenario where I know how badly the 200 fly is going to hurt, so I tense up before every race and have to give myself a pep talk just to walk behind the blocks. Shouldn’t I automatically be pumped to swim my best event? I’ve certainly done it enough times. Why is it that we are our worst enemies when it comes to putting yourself out there and just racing?
A positive mindset is something to which I attribute almost all of my swimming success. When I was younger, I never understood why my dad was always asking me how I felt about my races, especially when we both knew I had just swam poorly. “I don’t care. I wasn’t trying anyway.†He wasn’t trying to patronize me, I now realize. He wanted me to analyze my races. Rather than getting caught up on each bad race, I had to figure out what I did wrong and improve on it next time. To me, that is mindset.
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