MY HARDEST SWIMMING RACE THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET

Hello there, it is Beril . How are you today? I hope you are fine. As you know the title, It is story time😊.I am going to write about one of my hard(even it can be the hardest race I have ever swum!)race.

Actually I just swam that race. It was last Thursday (6^th February 2020). First of all It was not a normal pool race because it was 7.5km (by the way ıt is marathon distance in swimming). Normally the longest pool race distance is 1500m.The distances which is longer than 1500m is swum in open water like seas or straits but this time it was swum in the pool because it is winter therewithal it was ‘the national team selection race’ which means referees must observe the whole race.

Honestly it was horrible. Because it was my first time I had never swum a race more than 1500m. Nevertheless all my opponents had swum that kind of long race (like 3km,5km even 7km) before so everybody knew something about race apart from me. I have to admit that before the race I was not even sure about if I can finish the race.

When I started the race my excitement has passed a little but when I finished the first 1500m I think that ‘ıt will never finish !’because as you know 1500m is my longest race distance I have ever swum and when I finished 1500m in open water race I still had 6km!!!(which means four more 1500m) but I think that if I started that race I have to finished it so somehow I could finished.

Now, probably I think that ıt was a race which kills you physically. Actually you are right after the race two swimmer fainted also some of them could not finished the race. But furthermore the race kills you mentally because it is too long. I finished the race in 1 hour and 50 minutes(imagine that you are swimming that long without resting)!!! Or on other hand 7.5km equal 150 labs in the pool!! I am trying to say that you also should be ready in mentally to the race.

When I finished the race honestly I was died in physically but somehow I was feeling so happy because I could have finished 7.5km without stop which mean that I am a really strong swimmer (physically and mentally)😊.