Taper: February 2006
This taper has been a trainwreck. Between rapidly shifting body clocks, work, and excessively icy roads, I've gotten in very few workouts. It's been a struggle to get to enough sleep too. My eating habits have been deplorable. It seems like I'm doing everything wrong.
I'm two days out from the meet and exhausted. I got a long nap in today, which was divine, and hopefully that will help and not backfire by preventing good sleep tonight.
Depsite that the shambles that the last week and a half has been (swimming-wise) I'm not letting it dampen my spirits. This will be my first big meet since my senior year of high school! I'm ecstatic about getting to race again! And since it's been so long, I'm not expecting fabulous things out of myself. This will be a great-reacquaintance to competition: it will let me know what I can do and what some reasonable expectations and goals are. And since I am in a sparsely-populated age group, I will still be able to take home some ribbons and earn a lot of points for the team.
The 400 IM is first for me on Friday night. This is good because I will swim my most important event when I am still fresh. After that, all of my events are pure gravy.
Bring it on.