Mm

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I have always kind of been a really good trainer and a really good racer in practice.

And, like, the times and stuff that I put up in practice, I'm like-- Every time I go to a meet and it doesn't show, like in-- when I was in college, I was like, "I just don't understand.

Like, maybe this is just the way it is for me, and I'm trying my best." But something wasn't clicking, and I just wanted to give it one more chance.

And truthfully, that's what I walked into this, um, whole situation with the mindset of.

Like, I just-- I had talked to Todd, and II told him, I was like, "I'm gonna give it just one year," and we kind of both agreed on this year.

Yeah

And getting up and going and beating some people, particularly beating Luke.

Yeah, I mean, the way you just said it, like, I, I mean, I try to like put that part out of my brain, but it is a, a big part of why I am where I am today.

And so, um, but they're very two different people, [laughs] I think.

Um, so last year I had just finished my fifth year of college, um, because I had the COVID fifth year.

Um, but we-- I think I was just a little bit, little bit burnt out at that point and, um, just pushing through, and I definitely didn't have the right mentality going into it.

Um, I really wanted to, but I was really forcing it.

Like, I was like, "Oh, I need to do this." Like, "My gosh," like, "this is a make or break season" and I put that pressure on myself, um, like going into it.

[laughs] Yeah, what, uh, tell us more about the details in the pool.