I hope all of you are enjoying the snow. Let's be careful and keep eating and drinking right, as we know what training cycle we are in. Keep your eyes on the prize, we have worked to hard up to this point.UPDATES FOR THE WEEK: I would love to say there will be no changes but, the snow has messed up everyone's schedule from college, high school to our's. At this time the only practice that may be missed is Monday morning, but we should know more later. I hope to do all the afternoon practices. Let's get in as much as we can this week, extra if you can. We will have practice on Monday afternoon. There is no practice in the morning.
PRESIDENTS DAY: This meet has been canceled due to the fact that the schools are using it as a make up day from last week.UPCOMING MEETS: We need to make sure that we get signed up for the SNOW/MAKO MEET by Tuesday February 9. Don't forget our strategy for this meet.
SWIMMING QUOTE FOR WEEK :
When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the earth 
AUTHOR UNKNOWN..
SWIMMING QUOTE FOR WEEK :
When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the earth AUTHOR UNKNOWN.. ;
WEEKLY TOPIC: What do I do if I have a bad swim?
Over the years I have watched swimmers have a bad race and then proceed to allow that one race to control the rest of the meet 
like a dark cloud overhead, and than on the other hand I have watched swimmers have a great meet after a bad swim. What's the difference?
like a dark cloud overhead, and than on the other hand I have watched swimmers have a great meet after a bad swim. What's the difference?Let's say that you just got out of the pool after a unimpressive swim and immediately you begin to question yourself and begin to mentally torturing yourself about all the mistakes and maybe even shed some tears 
All this does is create an emotional wreck with a lot of races left to go.
All this does is create an emotional wreck with a lot of races left to go.A better approach would be having a chat with yourself that goes like this; "OK, so that wasn't what I wanted 
. But that's history now. I can't change the result. In fact, I don't even care about that swim anymore. It's history. Gone. Erased. Forgotten. I'm not even going to give it another thought. I might think about how I might improve upon it, but I'm not interested in getting emotional about it, and I don't want to talk to anybody about it right now , unless it's in a positive way. I've got to focus on the positive, 
on my next race, instead of dwelling on that result. I'd better focus on that next one right now and get away from this atmosphere for a while."
. But that's history now. I can't change the result. In fact, I don't even care about that swim anymore. It's history. Gone. Erased. Forgotten. I'm not even going to give it another thought. I might think about how I might improve upon it, but I'm not interested in getting emotional about it, and I don't want to talk to anybody about it right now , unless it's in a positive way. I've got to focus on the positive, on my next race, instead of dwelling on that result. I'd better focus on that next one right now and get away from this atmosphere for a while."Handling a bad swim this way allows you to overcome the negative thoughts by not getting involved with them in the first place. Remember that all your negative thoughts are fueled by emotion. With this method you get out after a bad swim and say Ok not my best but let's move on to the next one. If you don't fuel that negative thought, it will just die and fade away, and you can move on.
Let's have a good week of practice Mike
