Meet Review 7

Today we swam against MHS and some podunk school that isn't worth mentioning, as they had little influence on the outcome of the meet. MHS is the school standing between our guys' team and a state title. However, I think that our guys have forgotten that it takes effort to win things. It was only the third event and Coach was ticked at the guys. The girls were another matter. We scared the other team, which is good considering they were hoping to cream us. But there are a few little anecdotes that I should share.

MHS does not have a warm up/cool down area. This is like sentencing a swimmer to torture when they have events that are close to each other. Take the 200 IM and the 100 fly, for example. I'm not the only one that has to do that; the serval does too, now. We managed to get the places that we were supposed to in the IM, even though we both added time (we're dead, give us a break). Nevertheless, the fly came all too soon. After the IM, neither of us could actually stand up until the next race was partially over. Come the butterfly, we were so dead that we planned how to not do great in the fly. The serval was more worn out than I was, so what I said was this. "You just stay ahead of me. I'll watch the girls behind us. They are supposed to be four to five seconds behind me, so you stay ahead of me and we'll be good." All went according to plan. She added four seconds and I added two, but we got second and third like we needed to. We only have so much to give. Though, both of us had to check the opponents' positions off of every turn.

The girls had a relay DQ'd. Not happy. We could have been within, like, ten instead of within twenty.