Canadian Nationals 2004

Hi Carl, I think you were right about the second advantage from the block. I tried a dive from the side of the pool and only increased my time by about a second. Also, thanks for cluing me about the abbreviations. Should have been obvious to me but being new... :) Fritz, I've only been back in the pool for about 4 weeks after a 30 year absence. Plus, I never swam on a team or raced formally. I'm really loving being back into it! I'm looking to be a competitive swimmer but have a lot of work to do to get to where I want to go. I'll just keep working at. Even if I can't be competitive, I've decided to take your advice and just enjoy and the swim of it. You all have a great website here too. I'm in St. Louis and looking at the front page of the forums it doesn't look like our city is very active in all this, though it does look like the western part of the state might be more active. I'll be working on conditioning, but would any of you all have any info about where the next short course meet might be? I think I've browsed most of the threads showing up in forums, so I hope I'm not just being lazy about researching of it. Also, someone above I think mentioned 25 short course yard races. I haven't found any qt times for such. If anyone know of a thread or site, could you please post? Also, I would like to know more about how to get on a team and how thats done? Best to all!

Hi Carl, I think you were right about the second advantage from the block. I tried a dive from the side of the pool and only increased my time by about a second. Also, thanks for cluing me about the abbreviations. Should have been obvious to me but being new... :) Fritz, I've only been back in the pool for about 4 weeks after a 30 year absence. Plus, I never swam on a team or raced formally. I'm really loving being back into it! I'm looking to be a competitive swimmer but have a lot of work to do to get to where I want to go. I'll just keep working at. Even if I can't be competitive, I've decided to take your advice and just enjoy and the swim of it. You all have a great website here too. I'm in St. Louis and looking at the front page of the forums it doesn't look like our city is very active in all this, though it does look like the western part of the state might be more active. I'll be working on conditioning, but would any of you all have any info about where the next short course meet might be? I think I've browsed most of the threads showing up in forums, so I hope I'm not just being lazy about researching of it. Also, someone above I think mentioned 25 short course yard races. I haven't found any qt times for such. If anyone know of a thread or site, could you please post? Also, I would like to know more about how to get on a team and how thats done? Best to all!