Sorry for the late post, I know that some of you wanted to know how it went (as mentioned in my last one). I had PB's only for the 50m's swims, which were the freestyle and butterfly (you all know by now that I only swim free or fly). I was proud of my 50m's, especially the 50 fly, where I dropped more than a second from my previous time, which I also got a silver medal. To be honest with all of you, this competition I did feel extremely tired. The whole week before the competition, I felt tired every 50m I did, even when it was an easy swim, freestyle. I just felt out of breath immediately! I did notice even at the warm-up that I was a little tired than usual, but I just went by it positively and forgot about it during the races. 100m fly went okay, I mean, the first 50m is how I wanted it to be, but the last 50 was hard. As I said, the week was not the easiest. Only positive that I did get to hook a silver so. Then my last races finally came, which were basically right after each other. They were the 100m free and 200m fly. The 100m free was smooth, same as for the fly, the first 50 was good, but the last was very tiring. I just held my time, which I know that I can improve because of how it was just the tiredness from the last competition and from the whole week anyway. Then the 200m fly, which was utterly exhausting, while the 100's only had one more turn before finishing, the 200's have three, which from the state that I was in after the 50's, how would I survive this one haha. Okay, so, first 50, very good, second, well, could be better, third, HARD, fourth, EVEN HARDER. My strokes were dying in the last 100, so was my kick obviously. I got a silver, and I was just 2 seconds away from my PB, so also another which I know I can do better on without the random tiredness. Now I can finally relax and do something else in Romania before the Tenerife camp. Looking forward to it! 🙂‍↕️💗

The last Comp of the season went great. I swam great times even though I couldn’t train normally. I was injured and couldn’t train for a long time and I also couldn’t compete at the last competition. So I was really happy that I could swim. My coach also said it went great and I swam a few pb‘s. I am really happy about that. But what I am really really happy about is my Medal. I got third over the 100 Backstroke. And it was my first ever Medal at regionals. It was actually a bit unexpected because I couldn’t swim perfectly and there were a lot of faster swimmers there. So I think it was a really good competition to end the Season with. I also tried to swim the competition without pressure. I tried to not put pressure on me and not let the others pressure me. I think it really helped and I will definitely try to keep on doing that. I also always smiled before the start and I think that also helped. Overall I think I genuinely was happier and swam better than the past few competitions. It was also really really hot. Everyone was walking around with cooling towels but they didn’t really help. The water was also sooo warm and the lake was almost warmer than the pool. We had like 35-36 degrees. I was sweating so much. So that also made it way harder to swim because you got so tired from the heat and the sun. The cooldown pool was also so gross because so many people were there. So many gross things were floating around and the water was full of sand, sunscreen and grass. I still swam in it but I didn’t like it at all. The coolest thing tough was that the competition was here in Romanshorn and we organized everything And helped set up everything. It was so much fun. And there were so many people. Sorry for the long post.

This competition was the one I’d been waiting for the entire year, and how I’d crush all of my favourite swims with new pbs…although that was only a dream. Sadly, it did not go as planned and it totally backfired (I mean, in the individual races), let me talk you more. Sometimes when I’ve done an individual race like the 100m fly, and it turned out bad, always when I have a chance again to swim at a relay, I crush everyone. I mean, it’s obviously mentally that I do not want to disappoint the team and that I’d want my revenge for the last bad swim, but I would like that to be how I’d be thinking ALL THE TIME, not just in relays. It’s not like in every single relay I pb’d, I did on one and I’ll talk about it in a sec, but just how much I was willing to go out of my comfort zone and fight for that reward at the end (a medal, in this case, I did win a🥈). I think the most exciting and the most proud swim I’ve done is on the last day, where I competed in the 4^50m free. I was the last one, so I had to give it my best to secure a place! So, what did I do? I pb’d in the relay. And that was the 50m free time that I’ve wanted so long, it is a 29.! I’ve been struggling to go under 30s in so long, and I finally did, but I’m a little sad that it was not counted. What I’m a little stressed about too is that I know I can do my 29., but what if o do not succeed in the next competition coming up this weekend? (Sorry, I forgot to mention that I have ONE more competition before I’m free to go to Romania for the summer and relax). I REALLY ABSOLUTELY WANT to do better at this competition, even if it is literally this weekend and basically right after the other big competition. I have decided to do these races: the 50m, 100m, and 200m fly, and then the 50m, and 100m free. I’ll be training hard for this weekend because I want to succeed, I want to start the summer break on good terms, and it’s basically after just relax and seeing family. I think I’ve covered everything, have a good day you all! Xxxx 💖🫰☺️

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