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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Beisel<\/strong> did not go to a swim meet for more than nine months. After the Olympics in Rio, she took a break from the sport, traveling the world with fellow three-time Olympian Allison Schmitt<\/strong> and moving back home to Rhode Island, where she did some reporting work with the NBC-affiliate TV station in Providence.<\/p>\n

She was not training and wasn’t sure\u00a0where she stood with the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know if I was retired or not,\u201d Beisel said. Then she clarified: \u201cI don\u2019t think I was ever retired. I was just on a very long break, and I needed that. I hadn\u2019t taken a break from swimming since I was 11 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

All along, even before she made her third Olympic team and finished sixth in the 400 IM in Rio, Beisel had planned on coming back to the sport in time to compete in the summer of 2017, but the question had been when.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could have been three months, or it could have been seven or eight months,\u201d she said. \u201cI was going to come back on my own terms when I felt comfortable coming back. I started to miss it, and that\u2019s when I got in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In March, she began training regularly at Bluefish Swim Club with Chuck Batchelor,<\/strong> the same coach who guided her onto her first Olympic team as a 15-year-old in 2008. In April, she accompanied Bluefish to an altitude training camp in Colorado Springs, and she returned for a camp with\u00a0Bob Bowman<\/strong> shortly after that.<\/p>\n

During that second training camp, Beisel trained with a group that included Olympians Conor<\/strong> Dwyer<\/strong>, Chase<\/strong> Kalisz<\/strong>, Jay Litherland<\/strong>,\u00a0Gunnar<\/strong> Bentz <\/strong>and\u00a0Cierra Runge<\/strong>,\u00a0and even with her relative lack of training, she managed to keep up.<\/p>\n

\u201cBob told me that I needed to be in shape when I came, and I did my best to be in shape,\u201d she said. \u201cI was pretty proud of myself. I was making the intervals. I gave my best effort every practice. As every camp goes, you get better as the camp goes on, and so by the end of the camp, it was time to fly here, and I was feeling pretty good in the water.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But swimming well in practice is still a long way from a competitive 400 IM against an elite field, and Beisel knew she would have her work cut out for her when she made her return to racing at the Arena Pro Swim Series meet in Santa Clara, Calif.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t put on a racing suit in ten months,\u201d she said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t been off the blocks in ten months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the layoff, it was unrealistic for Beisel or her coaches, Batchelor and Florida head coach Gregg Troy<\/strong>, to expect anything close to her best. Beisel insists that she had zero expectations for how she would perform, so she has no complaints about what\u2019s she managed so far.<\/p>\n

On the meet\u2019s second day, she swam a time trial in the 200 back and finished in 2:13.67. In her signature 400 IM, she qualified second for the final in 4:44.77 and then an impressive 4:40.00 to finish second behind\u00a0Madisyn Cox<\/strong> in the final.<\/p>\n

So what do those performances mean?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it means I have an incredible base thanks to Chuck and Gregg,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you told me two months ago that I was going to go that fast, I would have literally laughed at you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, she faces a battle to get on\u00a0her seventh straight World Championships team when USA Swimming selects its roster later this month in Indianapolis. Even though Katie Ledecky<\/strong>, the fastest American so far this year, is unlikely to swim the race at Trials, Beisel will face a talented field that will include Cox, two-time NCAA champion Ella Eastin<\/strong> and Trials third-place finisher\u00a0Bethany Galat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Going to Trials With an Open Mind<\/strong><\/h3>\n

But Beisel is not letting any of what’s on paper bother her. For all the difficult objectives she\u2019s aimed for in the past, her goal over the next month might actually be more challenging than an American record or Olympic gold in the 400 IM, both of which she barely missed in 2012.<\/p>\n

She wants to go to World Championship Trials, the biggest meet on U.S. soil all year, with an open mind and no expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single summer I\u2019ve had hard goals, I\u2019ve had things I\u2019ve wanted to do, and those expectations can weigh down on you,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m just working on having fun and enjoying the process right now rather than thinking about the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Beisel knows that the end of her career \u201cwon\u2019t be far from now.\u201d She has no firm plans after Trials, so she wants to make sure to appreciate and enjoy her entire week in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to try to think of it as another meet and another chance for me to have fun and to soak in doing what I love. I don\u2019t know what the rest of my career is going to look like,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could make the Worlds team, or I could not. But while I\u2019m there, I\u2019m going to make sure that I put in the best effort I could have, and whether that\u2019s first place or eighth place or whatever it is, I\u2019m going to be able to walk away from that meet knowing that in the two or three months I was in the water, I did everything I could to make sure I would be the best that I could be at Trials.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The knowledge that she may be going through\u00a0her final swimming season is a feeling\u00a0Beisel calls weird, exciting and sad, but she feels her long break helped her realize what else she has to offer the world in a life outside the pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou hear it so many times\u2014swimmers really identify themselves as one thing, and that\u2019s as a swimmer and an athlete. But I think one thing that I learned on my break is that I\u2019m so much more than just a swimmer,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel like sometimes we can get a little lost inside this swimming bubble and we don\u2019t really give ourselves a chance to explore the world. I think I\u2019m really excited for that opportunity.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also through her time off, Beisel gained some perspective. She finished up in Rio dissatisfied with her performance in her lone event, the 400 IM. She ended up sixth in 4:34.98, more than three seconds slower than her lifetime best and a second-and-a-half short of her season-best time of 4:33.55.<\/p>\n

Beisel would sit in the stands as a cheerleader for Team USA over the next seven days, and she says it\u00a0was her role as team captain that saved her from \u201cgoing into a downward spiral, feeling bad for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her journey to Rio had been far from smooth, as Beisel ended up\u00a0in the hospital for several days just a\u00a0week before Olympic Trials before breaking a finger in warm-ups during Trials. But that\u2019s not the reason she learned to be okay with how the Olympics turned out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at myself and say, \u2018I got sixth at the Olympics,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cMaybe people expected more from me, but in the grand scheme of life, I was still the sixth-best person in the world. I think as athletes we become numb to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming Full-Circle<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nine years earlier in 2008, a 15-year-old Elizabeth Beisel competed in Santa Clara and won the women\u2019s 400 IM in a lifetime-best time of 4:36.75. It was that effort that earned her the No. 2 seed in the event at U.S. Olympic Trials that year, where she would go on to earn her first Olympic berth.<\/p>\n

Now, in 2017, Beisel has begun contemplating her next moves, her life when swimming will not be the focal point of her life, when she won\u2019t come to meets like Santa Clara year in and year out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many things out there in the world, and I\u2019ve given my life to swimming,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the near future, it\u2019s going to be time to give myself to something else, and I\u2019m completely fine with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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