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What Goes Through Your Head In Those 30 Seconds Before You Commence Your Swim?

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
May 21, 2021
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 What goes through your head in those 30 seconds before you commence your swim, be it in the #swimmingpool or #openwater?

Is if fear? Fear about what? How you’ll feel? How you’ll perform? Whether it’s too cold? What’s swimming around you?

Or is it excitement? A crazy craving to get in and smash out a new PB? Maybe just to feel the exhilaration of being in…

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