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This is from Rosemarie Miller!!
Hey ladies. Something I want to share with you.
I know some of you have read The Secret. Well, I've been really amazed by a little something related to that book and my last race.
You see, I TOLD myself about a week prior to the race "I am going to get third place in my age group." I never told anyone else. I said it to myself several times a day. I said it, and I forced myself to believe it. Sometimes, in order to do that, I had to repeat it over and over, either out loud or in my head.
Doubts creeped in. I even reverted to the 'Ah well, I am just going to approach this race with the objejctive of having FUN" a few times (especially when I learned about that intended 'beach start' and the 100 or so women in my wave.) But my goal, my belief in what I could do, was always underneath it all.
And I did it.
Now THAT, to me, is amazing. I never did finish the whole book, and I don't even know if I really have to but I do know this: I will employ this strategy with EVERYTHING I do from here on out.
And now on to lighter fare...
I had a TOTALLY AWESOME swim today!!!! I am still flying high!!! So you know I have been working on re-training my stroke. Well, just when that was coming along well and I was feeling confident and strong, ol' coach Bill throws me another monkey wrench: my hips are sinking. I'm not high enough on the water. Now, I need to focus on pushing my chest DOWN, actually swimming while pushing my upper body DOWN. This throws my whole stroke into disarray, once again. I've been working on this for two practices and today's session was no different. Except, now I get another to-do item: I'm not kicking correctly. I'm kicking more from the knee than from the hip. All the power in your kick is basically from your upper leg - glutes, quads and hamstrings. I'm not putting those muscles to use because I'm bending at the knee too much.
So today, I'm trying to swim DOWN and kick my entire leg. AND, we're doing sprints. My BRAIN was frying as I tried to get all the parts working correctly. And then, I GOT IT. IT clicked. I was on a 50 sprint and I. WAS. FLYING. ACROSS. THE. WATER. I felt it!! I could FEEL I was faster!! It was the coolest thing!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only did I have the personal satisfaction of knowing that I finally got it to work, but our coach stopped me at the end and said "YOU did a GREAT job today."
WAHOOOOOO!!!!!!! His compliments are rare and I really am in awe. Moments like that are what really get my motivation to skyrocket. If I didn't have to race to pick up Liam from school, I would have jumped right back in the pool then and there and done another 3000 meters.
So, moral of the story is BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and NEVER MAKE SUBSTITUTES FOR HARD WORK!!!
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