Complacency

This morning at my swim session I had an interesting chat with one of the senior citizens who despite being in his late 60's swims 2 miles a day.  He was telling me he'd been at a chess tournament which didn't have a great level of competitor in comparison to the ones he normally enters.  Despite this he was well and truelly beaten in a number of matches which had knocked his confidence especially as he had a tough tournament coming up.  I explained my 5 step goal planning process and he agreed a stringent review was required as maybe he had mentally lowered his standards due to the level of competition - in short he had been complacent.
I thought about that as I knocked out a very hard session this morning and focused on every stroke as I was against the clock and didn't want to become bored or lazy.  That's the great thing about measuring the various sets, the results never lie so there is no room for complacency!
Tonight I have a 10k on the clock which is to be compared directly against my last one as I wasn't happy with that result.  I'll report back my findings tomorrow.