Mind battles.

Hola! I am back from my first day back at school, and it seems weird that a year ago it was me coming up into year seven and now I am in year 8 and its my brother who has come up to year seven! I am really going to put my best efforts in this year and get the levels I want to achieve. I have been put into all the top sets, Maths, Spanish, Science and French and so have all my best friends!  I bet that makes us sound like a right bunch of nerds! Netball and athletics went well last night and it was good to be back.  Then this morning I went swimming and I was a bit more tired than I usually am although I still tried hard and well. I focused mainly on my technique on front crawl and my coach has been telling me what I have been doing wrong, one arm has been coming round and the other arm has been close to my body, making me uneven. Either of these techniques can be used but both arms have to be the same so I am working on using one technique on both arms and making sure that I am getting it right. We did some 100metres front crawl at the end, flat out, and I did well my coach was telling me to try and get a quicker time each time and I did just that, with the exception of the last one, as I was very tired by then. But my coach also spoke to me and about how psychologically I am very unconfident and that half of my battle is in my mind and that  I need to stop going to gala's worrying about getting my times and that instead I need to be monitoring which times I am hitting in training and set a realistic goal. I also need to just relax and not worry about getting the time or not, so this is what I am going to practice and make sure that I am relaxed whenever I am swimming in a competition.Well I am off now, so until next time! xxx