For the record, I have swam the 200 IM and the 100 fly in every high school meet since my freshman year (I swam three or four at the beginning of that year where Coach played with it). I have never, on a consistent basis, swam the two freestyle relays at the end. Today I swam all of my events in the second half of the meet. Wow.
-100 fly - at least something was the same. I went a 1:15; none too shabby when one is ill.
-500 free - yikes. That's a long ways when one is no longer used to pacing oneself. I'm in a sprint kind of mindframe; you don't sprint the 500. I dropped about a minute, but I haven't swam it in a very long time either. 6:18.
-200 free relay - story time! This event comes right after the 500, right? Well, me, being unused to this sort of thing, forgot that, as well as forgeting that I was in this relay at all. Eventually I had my teamates yelling at me across the pool to hurry, that the race was almost starting. I was sprinting across the deck, tugging the straps of my racing suit into place and pulling my goggles on. I was expecting them to start without me, as I didn't think that I was first. But then, I hadn't remembered that I was swimming either. Under the direction of my fellow swimmers, I jumped on the blocks and swam my guts out, barely keeping us from getting DQ'ed for delaying the meet. Afterwards, I discovered that I wasn't supposed to be first. Yeah, that was happy. :31.41
-400 free relay - I did better in this event than I have since the Blue and Gold meet. 1:05
More meet updates will quickly follow; we have one tomorrow, one Saturday, and one sometime soon next week.
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3 comments:
i was sad when you left math. elisa simpathized, but there were no more turkeys. i guess that it was worth it though cause it sounds like you pretty much rocked the pool. good jorb!
Sounds awesome! Good job!
i forgot that there was a swim meet today. i felt like a duck with no feet.
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