Retirement

Well, after 15(ish) years of competitive swimming, through club-KYAT, high school-Kearns, and college-University of Utah...I am officially retired. Well at least from the early, early mornings 6 days a week, the gruelling workouts that you seriously think you might not make it to the other end of the pool. All of the training trips, seeing my teammates everyday...What a HUGE change for me.

The past couple of days have been really rough for me. I feel like I've been in post-career depression. It's getting a little better day by day, but I still feel like I've lost a really big part of me. I have put so much into swimming my entire life and now it's just gone. Of course I'll still get in the pool and swim but it just wont be the same. Where are my friends that I've gone through hell with? Where is the coach pushing me past what I think I can do? I don't know how to swim with out that. I guess I'll have to teach and old dog new tricks. And that's never easy...from what I hear. I've never had a dog.

Anyway, I thought this would be a good topic to start off a blog if anyone will even read this. Who knows...I don't even know how often I'll even update this but we'll see. I'm going to try something new and this is a good time to do it. It's a new chapter in my life and I'm going to try to embrace the change with my big open monkey arms. Try...