I am not everyone else
- By Greg
- 22 January, 2013
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It’s week 4. Today was my first taste at breaststroke, and I sucked. Big time. Everyone else made it look so easy, so graceful. I felt like a walrus trying to run a 25 yard dash.
I am sensing a common theme already in my training… I am not everyone else.
I can’t swim very fast or very far…yet. In our group spin class I still can’t sit in aero position for more than a minute or so, and I don’t know how they did it, but the girls behind me gabbed and laughed throughout the whole class…I could barely breathe!! I already know that I can do the marathon part, even if I’m the slowest runner ever. It’s hard not to compare yourself to everyone else, especially in a competitive sport. But, I just have to remember, the only person I am competing with is me. I need to judge my progress against me, not them.
They can have their 3500yd swim bricks in January. I’m sticking to the training plan, even if it is only the ‘Finishers Plan’ and not the ‘Competitors Plan’.
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