Thursday, October 09, 2008
3:02:00 pm
The following are just my thoughts.
WELL WELL WELL.
It's IVP Swimming this weekend at TPY pool.
To some, it might be yet another competition.
But to me, I feel it's like a great big honour just to be able to SWIM at IVP.
I haven't swam in the tpy competition pool since I was 11 years old.
I'm not expecting anything much from this competition.
REALLY hoping I won't be last since the fake timings they submitted (which are WAY faster than what I'll EVER be able to swim) placed me in the fastest heats for all 3 events.
I feel weird.
It's been an ancient gazillion years since I've been for a swimming competition as a swimmer.
The eternity of transition. (Especially since it's like event after guys 1500m!)
I'm happy for 50m n 200m placings since I'm like at lane 8 and 1. But I'm screwed for 100m! I'm like in lane SIX. LIKE HELLO?! Even if I multiply 2 to my 50m fastest sprint time (that includes plunging eh) I won't be able to hit the time he put there!
Well, I guess it'll be a dream come true for me to swim breastroke at school meet. Ever since I missed 100m breast finals by 0.01s (I'll remember it forever) in pri6.
Not only that, I get to swim 50m n 200m too!
Is that a good or bad thing I can't decide.
Well, will just be going there, swimming my best, clock some PBs and timings (since I possess none?) hopefully meet some familiar faces, and just BE back at tpy comp pool.
In the meantime, it's the last training session for swim ivp later on. It'll prob be slack. Hopefully with some fun plunging and relays and a few sprints! So many things I'm learning how to swim better. With the plunging, how to utilise gliding, don't pull too early, pull forward not upwards, lunge forward with force, straighten back legs, legs together hands stretch, get the right rhythm! and my terrible turns. I wish and hope I can swim again next year, and get all those right by then.
I've come a long way. I must say I didn't start getting into the water until after this year's ivp in jan. After being back at tpy, watching ivp as a spectator, just made me motivated and I must say from a 200m breast in 4.10 to 3.42, I guess I've come quite some way in 9 months. Hopefully in one year I can be something! Although I've never been anything much in the water relative to water folks.
I guess I always get to appreciate things a little too late. It's always when things are nearing the end, that you start to treasure the company, those training sessions (or practices as they were last time) and so on. I never felt like I belonged in the beginning. But I guess that'll always be the case in anywhere new strange and foreign. But making new friends is all part of it! Getting to know them, watching their crappiness and how it's all just so long ago.... It's like you know... Something so familiar yet so long ago so it's not familiar anymore........
I'm loving the swimming pool.
(Maybe not so much this weekend cuz of all the butterflies)
But I'll be a sad girl once the weekend is over cuz in this short span of 2 months, it kinda changed my life, and I'm happy all right :)
Even looking at the programme booklet makes my heart thump like mad. AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh
And I think being a captain takes so much. Besides having to train yourself, you still gotta motivate ppl, plan everything and just keep going altho like everyone else, everybody's tired. I think all captains that I've met, I do really admire. I doubt I'll ever be able to be as self-sarcificial.
