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Cedric Wittmann

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South nationals

So first of all I met quite a few people at the meet I know but also from the Swimpros Community I met with

@Damjan Todorovski

@Dimitar Todorovski

and

@Edouard Plantet Vuc

. Then I slept really good before Friday and also I wasn‘t really nervous the day before so visualisation really helped a lot and the other techniques to handle my nerves. For example last year I was so nervous I almost threw up the day before. So on Friday I raced the 50 back where I PBd by 0.3s and I went a 29.01. In the evening I then had the 4x200 relay where I was a bit nervous right before but could also enjoy it with the boys. So I went 2:11.1 but I felt a bit bad afterwards since we were second until I got into the water and then finished 4th which annoyed me a bit. Then the night from Friday to Saturday I didn‘t sleep good and long at all since our room was like 30 degrees and we didn‘t have air conditioning. Therefore I also woke up quite a lot. Then on Saturday I didn‘t race and I just swam easy for an hour and also cheered for my team. Saturday to Sunday I slept better but only 7 hours because it was also warm and my roommate was doing some stuff which kept me awake so that was a bit annoying aswell. Then on Sunday I raced the 50 free which was a 26.62 which was okay but I needed to breath 2 times and my lungs weren‘t feeling as good as they already did sometimes. 20minutes later I raced the 100 back in the 4x100IM relay where I went 1:03.55 which is a 0.2s PB but I felt like I should have started off faster since I started with a 30.6 the first 50. I knew I could go faster and then in the evening we did the 4x100 IM relay mixed where I really wanted to go sub 1:03. I went 1:03.78 which is still good especially at the end of competition and not sleeping quite good the days before. But afterwards I wasn‘t unhappy with my time but I needed a 1:02.6 to make it to junior nationals throughout the rankings. So I realised that and since it was the last chance and my big goal for this season and it was so close I just cried for like 10 minutes into my towel because I knew I could have done it. So now I need to hope as I‘m between place 4 and 10 to get into the rankings if people don‘t want to swim so that‘ my last chance and I just need to wait until Monday.

So now I know I need to work on the turns dive and finish as they aren’t really good and I need to get faster away from the wall at the start and turn

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