02/13/2012

Today is the start of the last week of swim practice before the competition coming up this weekend. To be honest, I am really not satisfied with the results of today's practice. In the beginning, I got tired really early, and looking at the events that I'm enrolled in, I am really afraid that I can't do well in them. Also, I have this event, the 800 meter sprint. Even though there's only one person, which is me, in the competition, it doesn't mean that I can get the first place no matter what. There is a time limit for all of the events, and for the 800 meter one, the limit is 12 minutes. Today, I practiced 400 meter and timed it. The result is too scary, with a 7 minutes and 30 seconds. That is way too slow. If I multiply the time, it is way out of the limit. It's 3 minutes more, and when swimming 800, the second half will definitely be slower than the first half, which means that the official result of my event will be out of the limit for more than 3 minutes. Even though my teammates keep telling me that because it's the competition that day, my speed will go up more that day, but 3 minutes or more is really impossible to change within 5 days. I don't know what to do with that event now, because I kind of want to forfeit it, but my teammates and coaches tell me not to.