Meet Review 8

It's a little late (clever, clever rhymage). The meet against TvHS was...interesting. Their girls are the top in state at the moment, but they don't even have enough guys team members to fill up the relay spots (meaning they have five). Also, this meet has been dubbed the Meet of the Neverending Nosebleed. During the winter my nose gets really dry, and random nosebleeds occur all too frequently for my taste. This meet was actually the first one I've had in the water, which is lucky.

A 400 into warm-up (i.e. not very long into it) my nose started bleeding horrendously. I had to stop and make it look like my nose wasn't bleeding, 'cause even though there is plenty of chlorine to kill anything that's in my blood, you're still not supposed to be in the water while bleeding (understandable). So I stood at the wall, sniffling and hyperventilating to try to keep the blood inside of me. Generally these liquid-induced nosebleeds go away in 5-10 minutes, give or take. But I didn't get to warm up any more during the half-hour interval! Luckily, I wasn't swimming the first relay, so I had that time to get blood clots going and warm up. But my nose had other ideas.

IT KEPT BLEEDING UNTIL HALFWAY THROUGH THE MEET! That means that I didn't warm up before the IM. That also means that I was bleeding during the IM, but the officials didn't stop me because if they would have stopped me, the would have had to stop everybody else as well. I added six second.

Then my nose stopped its rampage during the ten-minute break between the 50 free and the 100 fly (I didn't swim the fly in this meet; that is the first time in high school swimming that has happened). Coming up on the 500 freestyle, I was warmed up and ready. I didn't drop any time, but I matched the one I posted last Thursday. But the team feels like crap; I beat our fastest 500 freestyler by eight seconds. That wasn't supposed to happen, obviously.

The relays were dumb. I had been randomly losing circulation to my hands all meet, and right before the relays it came to a head and I couldn't really control my hands any more. It was stupid. On the 400 free relay, my legs went numb too, so I think I looked like I was flopping around rather than swimming. I didn't do so hot in either race.

200 IM - 2:39
500 free - 6:18.97
Relays - don't ask