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Saturday, 03 August 2013 01:10

Overcoming Crankiness...

By Devon Palmer (Posted on July 22, 2013 by palmertri.wordpress.com)

Muncie 70.3 left me cranky for the better part of a week. My optimism levels are just now returning to normal. I would always tell an athlete to keep a broad perspective and never get too down over a single performance but this did little to stop me from feeling mad, sad and robustly pouty.

Though last week was mostly easy a few things in training have cheered me up. First, I set 3 swim PRs at practice at Hopkins Masters. Monday I got in, warmed up for 200, put on my paddles and pullbouy and swam my fastest 1000 ever. Previous 1000 PR was probably set en route to 1500 (I've done a couple of these in practice, also...

pull/paddles). There is a bright red digital pace clock on the wall and I could see I went through the 500 on exactly the pace I wanted. I knew it was on. Needless to say I cruised the rest of practice. I was up North until Thursday so I only did lake swims until practice Friday morning. READ MORE