Blue & Gold

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy! Today was the squad Blue and Gold meet and I am ecstatic. My team, Gold, lost, but I'll get over it. But who cares about the team, let's move on to me, 'cause I'm awesome. Today in the 200 yard IM (a 50 of each stroke) I tied the time I got last year at the state meet...at the end of taper (taper = rest). Then came the butterfly. I wasn't expecting to do too well, because as I was warming up, my arms still felt like lead because of the IM. But I killed myself on it and I got a 1:13.03. Guess what that means. That means I shattered (okay, I only beat it by 1 sec) the time that I got in January of 2004 and haven't touched since. I spent all last year trying to beat that time, and now I've finally done it! In the 200 free relay, I didn't do so well, so we'll skip that part. In the 400 free relay, however, I exceeded anyone's expectations. I was the anchor because the captain who signed the relay up forgot to change the order. So here I am, standing on the block, watching the lead the first two swimmers got going down the drain. But look, the third swimmer has held on to at least four seconds of the lead! Everyone is yelling advice at me, so I ignore it all and instead see a bunch of frantic motions and hear a steady roar of encouragement that only made me feel worse. The anchor on the other team was the greyhound, and let me tell you, I was seeded with a 1:07.41 and she has a 1:01. I jumped in and left everything I had in the pool, fully expecting my efforts to be futile. But much to my surprise, my relay still won, and I got a 1:04! Yipeee! I am so pleased with today, even though I felt like I was missing half of my all lunch period long.