This weekend I had a competiton and I swam pretty lot. I did some good PB's. All last week I did visualization and I think it helped me. I used Michael Phelps breathing technique just few Times, next time I'll do it more. I swam in two first team relays (that make me really happy) and one second team relay. I swam: 50m free relay 29.41 (PB 1 second)🥇 400 m free 5.07.79 (PB 1 second) 100m breastroke 1.20.27 (PB 1 second) and I was fourth by less than a second🥲 50 breastroke relay (4*50 medley) 36.71 (PB 1.3 second)🥈 200m medley 2.40.74 (PB 6 seconds)and I was fourth by less than a second🥲 100m free 1.04.14 (added second) 50m fly 35.50 (PB 2 seconds)

This weekend was my second meet of 2026 - south east Wales long course regionals. It was held in my home pool, and overall went pretty well. Saturday: 200 back - 2:38.32, was only a second off my pb so was a solid swim but I was already worrying a bit about the next one. 200 brs - 2:59.35, this was an interesting one. I was really nervous but took David's advice of going with the flow and investigating why rather than trying to patch it up. This did actually help a bit - don't get me wrong I still felt nervous, but it felt good to try something new. Dived in, came straight up and had a panic attack to the point where I actually ended up sculling parts of the first 50 just to breathe - I nearly stopped after 50, mum ran down the balcony in case she had to pull me out. Second 50 I settled into it and actually got going, 3rd 50 I came 'steam rolling through the field' (as my coach put it), last 50 I was then exhausted from trying to fight my way back. 200 free - 2:18.44, a 0.19 second pb!!! It doesn't seem like much but it's my first pb on this event in like 18 months. Swam a really good race even though for half of it I couldn't see anyone (end lane), and came away with a bronze. Super excited. Sunday: 100 brs - 1:23.18;, no sculling this time!! Controlled my breathing to prevent a panic first 25, then got going, second 50 felt really good. Coach was happy. I got to go home after this for a few hours as I wasn't in the middle session. 400 free - my favourite of the whole meet. 4:49.16!!!!!!!! Massive pb - 8.54 seconds off from summer nationals! Also won my heat from lane 6 against home club competitors, and felt really powerful all the way through. Game plan from coach was build through arms first 50, build through legs second 50, then 300 'fight for your life in the trenches 😭'. I haven't swim this one this season before today, so I just went out hard and held it. Mum was on poolside officiating and told me afterwards that it looked like a suicide swim 🥴. She thought I'd gone mad.

Daisy had her 800 free this weekend. She dropped 36 seconds. Down from 11.57 to 11.21. She’s feeling pumped for her 1500 free this weekend.

This weekend I had my first competition of the year in my home pool so I was used to the conditions. Gladly they switched up the competition by ages so I had the mornings off. I raced 50, 100, 200 back and 50 fly and 100 freestyle. My main focus was on the underwater fly kicks and they were quite good. I‘m quite happy about the 50 fly. The 50 and 100 back were good aswell but couldn‘t carry the speed on the stroke so I have to work on that. The 100 freestyle was good aswell but wanted to go a bit faster aswell. The 200 backstroke was my last event and as I didn’t really train for it, it wasn‘t the best and I‘m a bit disappointed by it. My times: 100 back: 1:01,87 (1 sec pb) 50 back: 28,68 ( 0,4 sec pb) 100 free: 58,42 (4 sec pb) 50 fly: 28.96 ( 2 sec pb) 200 back: 2:20,99 Also I got the fire badge today

100 free - 1:01.41 200 back - 2:24.98 (second place by miliseconds of the national champion) 50 fly - 32.26 200 free - 2:16.23 (was right after the 200 back so i was quite tired) 50 free - 28.54 (i was in lane 9 and the guy next to me done breastroke😭)