I’m Swimming in Omaha!
I’m still alive! I’m sorry for the delay in posting another blog but life has been fast and furious in the Josh Davis fast lane! So here’s a quick update since my last entry.
First, I spoke to a great group of people Wilderness Oak Elementary in San Antonio; flew and enjoyed a great BOSC clinic in NJ with Jenny Thompson; flew to Oklahoma to give another BOSC clinic and speak to New Castle elementary school; flew back to San Antonio to give a corporate talk; attended the coolest banquet to honor Dr. Toyoda (The founder of Toyota); hosted another awesome BOSC swim clinic for Fine Silver Ranch; spoke to a great group of elementary students at Freiheit Elementary; flew to CA to host a BOSC in Placerville and Sacramento and had Larsen Jensen join me; flew through the night to get home and host another great BOSC clinic for the Hidden Forest Piranhas; hosted a great BOSC clinic for Fair Oaks Ranch and then turned around and hosted another BOSC for Northwest Crossing; flew to Houston and hosted a BOSC swim clinic for the Maple Wood Marlins; drove to Dallas and was the guest speaker at a church; flew to South Africa to speak to my favorite people (Mutual of Omaha family!); coached a session at The University of Texas swim camp; and raced to get my Olympic Trials cut!!!
That’s right! Today I swam 23.29 in the 50 to qualify to swim at Olympic Trials. I couldn’t help it! I haven’t slept in a few days because of my travel and then I went to bed last night @ 1:00am. I had to get up at 4:00am to drive to Austin to coach for an hour. As I was driving, I couldn’t help but think about all the photos and articles I’ve been seeing about Trials. It’s going to be the most exciting swim meet in HISTORY!
After all these images were racing through my head, I thought, “I can’t miss this!” I can’t miss an opportunity to swim in the most exciting swim meet ever! So after I coached this morning, I signed up for a swim meet that was being held at UT. I was still so tired from no sleep and warm-up felt AWEFUL! Admittedly, I haven’t train a lick. The only thing that keeps me wet is racing all you BREAKout! swimmers. But I went for it! Racers take your mark…I dove in spinning my arms as fast as they would go. I kept thinking, “Come on Josh…just get to the wall so you can swim in Omaha!” I touch the wall and quickly glanced to see my time…I had to go 23.49 to get my cut and to my amazement I went 23.29!!!
Woo..hoo!! I’m swimming in the pool!!! I’ll be hosting swim practices prior to prelims for anyone still interested but I’m going to have to leave a little early to have a little FUN! I can’t wait to see you there! I’m so excited!!
