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By Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior Writer<\/i><\/p>\n

After Ross Murdoch<\/strong> won the Commonwealth Games title last year in the 200 breaststroke, he was pegged as a strong medal contender for this year\u2019s world championships. But Murdoch was unable to qualify for Great Britain\u2019s team in the event, placing third. He rallied to swim his lifetime best in the 100 breast, just behind Adam Peaty\u2019s world record<\/a> to earn a spot on the world team.<\/p>\n

Murdoch made the most of his time in Kazan, earning a surprise bronze medal in the 100 breast. He\u2019s back in the pool getting ready for the British Olympic Trials, and took time out to reflect on the past 12 months, the illness that affected his training and what it means to be in a country of such talented breaststrokers.<\/p>\n

Swimming World:<\/strong> What has life been like for you since you got back from world championships?
\nRoss Murdoch:<\/strong> It\u2019s been pretty good. I had a nice break from swimming. I took three weeks off to let my body recover from the last season\u2019s worth of work, and I\u2019m just starting to get back in. This is my second week back at the pool. I\u2019ve been able to relax for the first time in a long time. Last season was very long, and it\u2019s one that I enjoyed very much. I achieved all of my goals to came away with a medal from the world championships in an event that I don\u2019t consider my favorite event.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been pretty good fun just having a little bit of time off, getting myself ready to tackle another long season.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> Most swimmers don\u2019t like taking that much time off, especially in the year before the Olympics. Was this break something that you decided to take, or did you coach decide?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> It\u2019s something I felt like my body needs. Swimming takes a lot of work. We train twice a day in the pool and once in the gym every single day here in Stirling. It\u2019s a very tough program that we run here, and I feel like we train 48 weeks of the year, so your body just needs some time to recover. You need some time to switch off. We\u2019ve all got strict diets as well, so we\u2019ve been able to switch off from the strict diet and just be a normal human being rather than being an athlete. Having that (break) gets you back into the season more level-headed, in my opinion. Having spent some time having fun and having a bit of a social life, seeing friends that I\u2019ve not seen in months, doing that type of thing gets me back into the season a lot happier. I believe that a happy swimmer is a fast swimmer.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> When you talk about being \u201ca normal human being,\u201d what does that mean for you?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> For me, it\u2019s literally having that social life where (I say), \u201cI want to go do this,\u201d but in (the middle of the season) I can\u2019t. I live a little bit away from my family. I live away from home, so it gets me the opportunity to go and see my parents any time I like. I live quite a distance away from my friends who don\u2019t partake in swimming anymore, so it gives me the opportunity to see friends I don\u2019t see every week. Basically, it means I get to walk away from my strict diet. I\u2019m a lover of food. I like to eat good food, so it allows me to eat what I like. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also about trying to get the rest of my life in order. Spend some time with my girlfriend, go on holiday, do things that you don\u2019t get to do that often without having the thought of \u201cIs this going to hurt my swimming\u201d in the back of your mind. During those three weeks, it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s going to hurt my swimming or not. It\u2019s about what\u2019s going to make you happy.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> It\u2019s been a rough year with some heath issues. Can you go into some detail about that?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> In November, I was diagnosed with glandular fever, which is a pretty heavy one for any athlete. I took a month out of the water just getting myself over that virus. It took me about a month to get back into the swing of things before (world championships) Trials. That meant I pretty much shot myself in the foot. I didn\u2019t take any time off after the European championships last summer, and didn\u2019t let my body recover enough. I had to learn the hard way that your body needs rest. So, I had a month out of the pool and it ruined my preparation for the 200 (breaststroke) at Trials and ultimately not making the team in that event. I learned a lot of lessons from that, and I don\u2019t plan on being that silly again.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> With all that going on, what were your thoughts of your chances of making the world championship team in the 100 or 200 breast?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> Eight weeks out from the Trials, I sat down with my coach, Ben Higson<\/strong>, at the University of Stirling, and said, \u201cI think the 200 is unrealistic to make the team.\u201d He was like, \u201cWhy would you come to me with that attitude?\u201d I said, \u201cLook, I\u2019m being realistic. This is what I feel to be the truth. I\u2019m going to go in and I\u2019m going to swim it.\u201d I went 2:08.7, which is not particularly slow. I think it was top five in the world at the time. So, it wasn\u2019t slow, but it so happened that it was \u2026 third in Britain. So, it wasn\u2019t good enough on the day.<\/p>\n

I basically said to him (Higson) that I don\u2019t believe I\u2019m in shape to go sub-2:08, so what I want to do is I want to change the focus. I said we should take up the 100 (breast), and really try to work the speed for the front end (of the 200 breast), and think of it as a process leading up to the Olympic season where you want to be attacking that season as the fastest you\u2019ve ever been. The thing was I wanted to increase my 100 speed so I could make the front end of my 200 speed a lot easier.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> What are your thoughts about this very competitive field of breaststrokers in Great Britain?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> I love it. I absolutely love it. If you look at world swimming at the minute \u2026 breaststroke seems to be coming at it strong. I think it\u2019s the only stroke where all the world records belong to (swims done in textile suits), so it\u2019s a wonderful thing. It\u2019s an event that\u2019s being pushed hard in the world, but I feel Britain is leading the way with such a big depth in breaststroke.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really nice to have that because it\u2019s one of those things where I wake up in the morning knowing that the world record holder in the 100 (Adam Peaty<\/strong>) is no more than 500 miles away and I need to race him every single race. I need to race him every time I step on the blocks, but that\u2019s a really nice thought to have that I get to experience that. People across the world don\u2019t get to experience that as much as I do. That encourages me to train even harder, and I get to base my progress off the best in the world. I want to race the best as often as I can.<\/p>\n

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Ross Murdoch (left) with 100 breast world champion Adam Peaty Photo Courtesy: Maria Dobysheva<\/p><\/div>\n

SW:<\/strong> Swimming in Scotland has also been doing well in the past year. Do you believe that\u2019s growing interest in the sport among younger people in Scotland?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> I think so. If you look back to London 2012, that generated such hype in Britain, as it would in any country. Any country who hosts an Olympics creates a hype around these sports that aren\u2019t professional sports. Swimming certainly had a lot of fast times go down in London. Britain didn\u2019t have the best Olympics, but it still encouraged a lot of people to get in and get involved. It certainly inspired me watching Michael Jamieson<\/strong>. He\u2019s a Brit, but he\u2019s also a Scot. Watching him there made me truly believe that not just British people but Scottish people are capable of getting medals on the world stage. That\u2019s what made me believe I could go and win a medal at the world championships or Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> And then having the Commonwealth Games in Scotland last summer must have helped with exposure.
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> That was amazing. Being able to stand on top of the podium with a world-leading time and hearing the national anthem \u201cFlower of Scotland\u201d \u2026 is so rare to be able to have that. I\u2019ll probably never experience that again, hearing my home nation\u2019s national anthem (while) standing on top of the podium. That\u2019ll probably never happen again in Scotland. I\u2019m sure (400 IM winners) Dan Wallace<\/strong> and Hannah Miley<\/strong> share that. There was such hype during Commonwealth Games and after for swimming, which was really, really nice to see. People know of my name now in Scotland, and all these other names that became household names because we did so well in the pool.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> Do you feel like you are a celebrity in Scotland?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> I got a little taste of a celebrity lifestyle. You walk around the supermarket, you get the stares and people stop you and want to take your picture. It\u2019s nice having that many people supporting you. It comes with the job. If you want to be the best, these things happen.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> Next year, the Olympic Trials will be in Scotland. I\u2019m sure that\u2019s giving you a boost in motivation.
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> I performed out of my skin (at the Tollcross International Aquatic Center at Commonwealth Games) and it\u2019s one that I\u2019ll never forget. I can\u2019t wait to have the Scottish people back again at Tollcross and hopefully I want to see as many people I can in Tollcross supporting all the athletes. It\u2019s going to be such a good meet.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> You said the 200 breast is your favorite event. Why do you like it more than the 100?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> The best way to describe it is I\u2019m almost a bit of a diesel. It takes a bit for me to get going, but once I get going, I\u2019m big, I\u2019m efficient, I\u2019m clean. I feel like I\u2019m a back-end swimmer, and looking at my 100 from the world championships, I had the strongest back 50 in the field (31.14). It was my last 20 meters that ultimately got me that bronze medal. I feel like my stroke suits that. I\u2019m not a terribly big guy. I stand at 6 feet, whereas a lot of these 100 boys stand at 6\u20192\u201d, 6\u20193\u201d. I feel like I\u2019ve got speed through efficiency. When you\u2019re talking about a distance that\u2019s over 100 meters, you\u2019re certainly looking to be as efficient as possible. I love swimming the 200 because there\u2019s more tactics that you can use in it.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> Obviously, you\u2019ve got a long swimming career ahead of you, but what sort of career do you have in mind when you move on from swimming?
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> For me, I\u2019ve always thought about whether I would go into coaching. I\u2019ve got a lot of experience to pass along to younger swimmers, and also I want to develop senior athletes as well. It\u2019s one of those things I\u2019m not sure I would go into that. Something that has been a long-term dream of mine is to be a police officer. I would love to be a policeman in Scotland. It\u2019s a great career. There\u2019s a long pathway in it, and it\u2019s got opportunities to move up the ranks. It\u2019s a great career, but it\u2019s also a short career. You can make a living and support a family, and you can retire early as well and enjoy your life.<\/p>\n

It all depends on how good your swimming career is. A lot of athletes go into motivational speaking and careers in the media. I\u2019ve got to wait and see how things pan out. But, my dream since I was a little boy was to be a police officer.<\/p>\n

SW:<\/strong> That would be cool to have a Commonwealth Games champion out on the street policing Scotland.
\nMurdoch:<\/strong> I would love it. That would be great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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