Maya's Goals — This Season Into Next
A working sheet, not a wish list. Each goal has a way to tell if it's actually happening — a goal you can't measure is just a hope.
Race the engine right — drop times, don't just log yardage.
Why it matters: the fitness is already there; the pacing, walls, and stroke are what's leaking it.
- How we'll know: personal-best times in her distance events that match her training.
- This week: go out controlled; sharp walls every turn.
Pace it — bring it home.
- How we'll know: a race she swims the back half faster than the front.
- This week: negative-split pace sets; someone ahead early means nothing.
Win the walls.
- How we'll know: sharp turns and underwater kicks on every wall, even when tired.
- This week: turns-and-underwaters focus every set; streamline holds at home.
Hold the stroke together.
- How we'll know: a race where she keeps her stroke long and strong to the finish instead of falling apart.
- This week: hold-it-together sets on the tired back half.
The one that isn't a skill
Don't panic-race.
- How we'll know: a big race where she sticks to her plan instead of chasing whoever sprints the first 50.
- Nobody claps for this one. But swimming her own race is the habit underneath every other goal.
Pick one target every time she practices or races, put a number on it, and chase it. The goals don't move — the evidence stacks up.
