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The 5 Phases to Becoming a Distance Swimmer<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Kelly Lennon (From the Swimming World Archive)<\/em><\/p>\n

Potentially the worst part of being a distance swimmer, besides the unbelievable amount of yardage that comes with it, is finding out you\u2019re a distance swimmer. It\u2019s very similar to going through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.<\/p>\n

1. Denial<\/h3>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

My firm response every time my high school coach told me \u201cYou\u2019re going to be a distance swimmer,\u201d and again when my club coach told me \u201cYour first YMCA Nationals cut is going to be in the 500.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour sister was a distance swimmer, you\u2019re good at the 500, you\u2019re going to be a distance swimmer.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was in complete and utter shock. How could this be happening to me? What had I done to deserve this injustice? These men were clearly just confused. Until this point in my career, I\u2019d considered the 500 to be survival instincts and nothing else. I don\u2019t even think I had ever swum a 1500 at this point. Who were they kidding?<\/p>\n

2. Anger<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr<\/p><\/div>\n

No, seriously. What had I possibly done in my short life to make the karmic swim gods so angry that this was the path I was being placed on? My coaches were wrong. I spent more time in practices arguing with my coaches that I wasn\u2019t a distance swimmer than trying to work on other things to actually prove I wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

3. Bargaining<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Joao Marc Bosch<\/p><\/div>\n

200 free? No.<\/p>\n

100 fly? No.<\/p>\n

Backstroke?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026Diving?<\/p>\n

Definitely not.<\/p>\n

4&5. Depression and Acceptance<\/h3>\n
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The main problem with this whole ordeal was that deep, deep down, I knew they were right. I couldn\u2019t sprint to save my life, I wasn\u2019t a backstroker, I DEFINITELY wasn\u2019t a breaststroker, and my butterfly was average at best. I had pretty much run out of options and had to face the reality of it: I was a distance swimmer.<\/p>\n

At first, this seemed like the end of the world. Distance is incredibly tough. The yardage, the mental toughness, the long practices, and in case I haven\u2019t emphasized it enough already – there\u2019s a lot of yardage.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s also a pride that comes along with swimming the longest events that this sport has to offer. Our shortest race lasts for longer than most non-distance swimmers races last combined together. And even that race \u2013 as I found out in college \u2013 is considered a sprint.<\/p>\n

The mental capacity it takes to watch the counter turn from 1 to 3, to 5, lap by lap, slowly climbing to 63 then the beautiful double red blocks is something that a small percentage of swimmers can teach themselves. I\u2019ve had teammates come up to me and say \u201cI don\u2019t know how you do it. I could literally never.\u201d And that is a feeling that never gets old to me, and why I\u2019m proud to be a distance swimmer.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t choose the distance life by any means. It chose me, and I couldn\u2019t be more grateful for it.<\/p>\n

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