She keeps these four important factors in mind.
Then she’ll start her “warm-down,” which takes 20 to 30 minutes and includes 1,000 to 1,500 meters of “really easy swimming,” she says.
“I just go based on feel and I want to make sure I’m never hungry,” she says. “You want to stay ahead of any hunger that you might feel.”A packed swim schedule can mean tons of races to ruminate on. But that kind of thinking, as Ledecky learned, can take away from the focus you need to direct at what’s right in front of you.That mindset was especially vital in Ledecky’s toughest stretch in Tokyo: the 70-minute turnaround between the 200-meter freestyle final and the 1,500-meter freestyle final.
“After the first race, I shift my mindset to the second race almost immediately,” she says. “Whether the first race goes really well or not as well as I would have hoped, I know that I have to move on from it really quickly and approach the second race like it’s my first of that day and my only race of that day.”
Instead, she talks about hanging out in the pool with her relay teammates and lingering over dinner in the Olympic Village.
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