When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.
If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.
I love the water; I love to swim.
Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.
Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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