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By Taylor Covington, Swimming World College Intern.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the morning you silence your alarm with a reaction time comparable to that \u201cquestionable\u201d relay start. It\u2019s when the taper energy has festered into a consuming sort of restlessness, the kind that is only quieted by the monotonous hum of the fluorescent lights above the pool deck. It\u2019s sitting there with one headphone in, watching the water surface break for its first overly-eager warm-up swimmer, slowly morphing into a white-water frenzy. It\u2019s looking up to the stack of metal bleachers, now alive with the beaming faces of the people you love who are eager to see you perform well – the people you want to make proud.<\/p>\n

This is quite the buildup \u2013 for such an irrelevant day.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Robert Stanton\/USA Today Sports Images<\/p><\/div>\n

The sport of swimming is wrought with the tantalizing, unforgiving mentality that the entire season rests on a few central days during the championship meets. Every lift and every practice is a ceremonial self-sacrifice in service to race day. Every second deliberately builds to that one moment when the starter\u2019s speaker crackles on and the touch-pads submerge. Swimmers are servants to the competition: martyrs to the taper meet.<\/p>\n

Yet, this mindset is horribly restrictive and inadequate in characterizing a deeply nuanced sport such as swimming. Such narrow thinking can truly strip swimmers of the fullest experiences of the sport, ultimately leading to discouragement and perverse ideas of victory and goal-setting. Victory isn\u2019t limited to one day (or a set of days). The most important moments are not when all the lights come on and the bleachers are full, when the LZR cuts off circulation in all the right places, and the stars align.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

The most important moment of the championship meet is tonight on your bedroom floor, stretching that calf muscle that kept cramping earlier in today\u2019s practice. It\u2019s wincing a little as you press it over a foam roller, nursing it with KT tape before climbing into bed.<\/p>\n

No – actually, tomorrow will be the most important day. It\u2019ll be waking up at 5:30 a.m. and changing in the dark so as to not awaken your roommate. It\u2019ll be tugging on a suit that\u2019s still damp from practice 10 hours ago, making sure to grab a drink with the perfect carb ratio before heading out on deck.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s the moment when you give your lane buddy an eye-roll as your coach unveils today\u2019s aerobic set, only to offer a rosy-palmed high-five two hours after you\u2019ve pushed each other past what you thought possible.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s the day when everything goes wrong: when your bad test grade lends itself to missed intervals and sloppy open turns. The days when the sets are too fast and the practices are too long. Maybe, it\u2019s when your coach tells you he\u2019s disappointed.<\/p>\n

Or maybe, it\u2019s the day when you squat a personal best or have to bandage your blisters from the chin-up bar. It could be the day when you hit pace on every single 50 and sprint the last one, even when your coach has to step away. It\u2019s the dual meet where you hit a best time, and the one where you get out-touched.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s soaring through the air on your first successful step-over start with three taped toes to mark the journey. It\u2019s teaching it to the freshmen with the wisdom from your mistakes. It\u2019s holding a cold water bottle to your flaming cheeks and nodding with the rhythm of your labored breathing, as your assistant coach screams, \u201cOne more!\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s knowing when to be a leader, when to be a teammate, and when to be a friend.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that moment when your teammates take that short, irrational hop back from the splash of your flip-turn, only to go back to slapping the tiles of the pool deck. It\u2019s the way they get you home for the last 25 yards of every race.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s waking up every day knowing that today is the most important day. Today, you will find a victory somewhere.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the day when you realize swimming is more than just the taper meet.<\/p>\n

\"KNOXVILLE,

Photo Courtesy: Tia Patron\/Tennessee Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Swimming is the culmination of every moment before the lights come on: before you stand barefoot and fast-suit-clad under the artificial glow of the scoreboard. The taper meet is the product of every “most important day” that precedes it – the last in a string of daily victories. Don\u2019t diminish the opportunity each day affords you in deeming it a stepping stone. Know that if somehow at this meet, it doesn’t show up in the neon, pixelated time flashing back at you from across the pool, you won’t walk away empty-handed.<\/p>\n

In fact, luckily, tomorrow is the most important day of the season when the cycle starts all over again.<\/p>\n

All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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