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What would Bobby Finke do if he found himself behind in the race? What would he do if he didn’t feel he had much energy left? What would he do if the race felt like it was getting away from him? If he realized that maybe he wasn’t going to win, that it wasn’t his day, and that he kept falling further behind and everything was stacked up against him?
I ask because it’s relevant to my life right now. I am behind the race and it’s not looking good. It looks like SwimSwam has decided it won’t publish any more of my articles. It’s been fourteen days since they published the last one and I’ve submitted around 14 since then that remain in email spam boxes not getting out there to my fans, you the SwimSwam audience. You’re missing out on so much yet you don’t even know it. No one knows about it.
So I channel Bobby Finke right now. He would keep swimming. He would believe there was a way to break the dam impeding his progress. Stop he would not.
Rather than slow down, he would speed up. Like in his 1500-meter race, I’m at the last two laps before the Olympic swimming starts and this is the time to decide how bad I want this, how much pain I’m willing to endure.
Is it in me to keep writing for SwimSwam despite losing over and over again?
At the Paris Olympics will Bobby come from behind in the 1500 and dig deep inside his soul to find a way to overcome all that makes him ache? We should all have utter confidence he will do – or lead the race from the jump — because he proved it twice at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics taking Gold in the 1500 and 800 freestyle events with exhilarating comebacks in the last lap of each race. Shocked the swimming cognoscenti.
If Bobby can keep going, can I? If Bobby can endure the pain, can I? If Bobby can believe in himself, can I?
I can.
It may not work. I may not succeed. It’s reassuring to know these are universal truths we all grapple with all the time.
All Olympic swimmers will have to accept this same situation in their races. They may not win. They may not go their personal best times. It all may end up being a situation akin to sending blogs to SwimSwam for ~14 straight days without any of them getting to you, the regal readers because they’re not good enough.
There is so much we don’t know, all of us: swimmers, writers, editors, readers, scorers and timers, starters, race officials, parents, children, website developers, generative AI, seamstresses, equestrians, shot putters, fencers, tax attorneys.
We step on the starting block and dive in.
Again.
And again.
Never sure what will happen.
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