{"id":157752,"date":"2015-11-04T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=157752"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T16:59:07","slug":"thank-you-swimming-the-best-sport-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/thank-you-swimming-the-best-sport-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Swimming: The Best Sport Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Mariana de Paula, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the best thing I\u2019ve ever done,<\/p>\n<p>This November, I am thankful for everything I had the opportunity to learn in life. I&#8217;m especially thankful for the sport that took me across the globe and let me live my dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The one sport which requires <strong>obsessive commitment<\/strong> regardless of the competitive level. A sport that I have learned to love more and more, and never seem to stop loving. A love that goes beyond any Olympic year boost.<\/p>\n<p>Swimming can make you crazy. The chlorine factor, added to hours of having your face underwater, locked in complete silence sounds a little crazy. No one to talk to, no one that can do it for you. The real individual sport.<\/p>\n<p>You face difficulties that go beyond common health issues. Swimmers have constant injury risk, both in the upper and lower body. We face stress and anxiety on a daily basis, and learn how to deal with it. Many times I\u2019ve felt desperate after correcting one detail on my stroke, and ended up getting 10 other elements wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of the difficulties I can count, I wouldn\u2019t have chosen anything different. All of the bumps in the road were essential to make me a better swimmer. Maybe because only something that put you so high up can make you fall so hard.<strong> Because even after years without beating a lifetime best, there was never a day that my disappointment exceeded my hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve yet to find a satisfaction greater than finishing a morning practice. Nothing to describe &#8220;accomplishment&#8221; better than feeling all the pain at the end of a set and knowing that you gave absolutely everything you had that day. I still don\u2019t know how to control the adrenaline that runs through my veins when I see someone else competing, as if my heart was desperately calling me to get back in the water.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_159147\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/arena-grand-prix-minnesota.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159147\" data-attachment-id=\"159147\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympians-galore-set-to-start-arena-pro-swim-series-in-minneapolis\/arena-grand-prix-minnesota\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/arena-grand-prix-minnesota.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1320,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"arena-grand-prix-minnesota\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Arena Pro Swim Series Minnesota&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Maddy Olson&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/arena-grand-prix-minnesota-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/arena-grand-prix-minnesota-1024x698.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-159147 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/arena-grand-prix-minnesota-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Arena Pro Swim Series Minnesota\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Maddy Olson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The emptiness of the silence makes you stronger. Your face in the water forces you to organize your thoughts and build a mindset that makes all the other athletes jealous. It gave me the real definition of \u201cmind over matter.\u201d Recognition, in swimming, will only be an issue for those who do it for the fame. Love does not seek for recognition or attention. Swimmers, like me, are rather moved by challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the time\u2026 If there is something swimmers appreciate like no other is the value of a second. A hundredth of a second can separate you from the first place. A tenth of a second is what may have left you out of that final you have always dreamed about. A second is the difference between you and that cut you never seem to reach. Ten seconds is that tight interval in a set that you thought wouldn\u2019t be enough for you to recover. Even months of recovering from an injury can be painfully worth it on the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Time is the key we carry in our favor in order to build a lifetime achievement.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, you learn how to love the sport, and everything about it. You learn how to win with humbleness \u2013 <strong>but most of all, you learn how to cope with failure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Swimming does not define me, but it has definitely shaped me to be the person I am today. And for that reason, I thank the best sport there is.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for the day I put my foot in a pool for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t imagine myself\u00a0without the sport that has shaped my entire life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote in a poem a few years ago:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am not, after all, what I do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I found out<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That at the end of the day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am what I feel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Always were.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Always will<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mariana de Paula, Swimming World College Intern To the best thing I\u2019ve ever done, This November, I am thankful for everything I had the opportunity to learn in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":148326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,17],"tags":[44011,87],"class_list":["post-157752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","category-commentary","tag-mariana-de-paula","tag-swimmer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Thank you, Swimming: The Best Sport Out There<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thank you, swimming. 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