Just look at it as a prime opportunity to watch some really great swimmers swim. Watch them for 10 min or so before your own swim, absorb their form in your mind, and then try to reproduce it when you swim. Obv you will prob be a tad slower but you can still have great form. I just love watching great swimmers in person:)

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

Watch and learn! What a cool opportunity.

Last year, after our local swim meet we got to watch as a few studs and studettes from the national team, including Ryan Cochrane, went through their warm up before their practice. That was a very, very humbling experience.

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Long Chile was a silly place.

so a development - the email went out and said they'd only be there in the afternoons, however we have two male (segregated) swim sessions a day and usually there's only 2-3 of us go in the mornings so they didn't bother to put that in the email

So I'm swimming this morning, they arrive, take the first 4 lanes and I'm in 5 - now I don't want to move, but equally don't want to really stay and feel humiliated, I don't know how they determined how many per lane as some lanes had 3-4, next to me was a woman on her own, unsurprisingly she was swimming quickly but I don't think anyone of them were close to as fast as the bloke that was in there 2 weeks ago - I am going to watch closely as i'm not really sure who / what the team is or why they're here - that said they are all way faster than me and its just as well I don't have a body image issue otherwise I'd have left there and turned bulimic......

You had me at Just to continue to feed my feelings of sexual inadequacy.

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Awesome opportunity! Watch and learn and soak it up while you can wish I was there? Where by the way?