This weekend was our Pacific Masters Championships. It was a close battle between WCM and USF and I don't know who won at this very moment. I don't care.
You see, I left right before the 1000 today (the last event) right after the last relays. I watched some great swims today. Amazing swims. My friend Brendon swam a 2:03 200 fly and really hit his taper (as he's not going to Nationals)- we were teasing about how he does really well the week after a tapered meet. He seemed to finally figure it out this time.
My friend Stephen called me tonight and told me that Brendon also had a great 1000, was warming down, had a heart attack and died. He was 35. I was stunned. I've been crying since then trying to make sense of it all. It doesn't make sense.
I called some other friends and no one else can believe it either. Suddenly, the meet doesn't matter, swimming doesn't matter, what matters is that we lost a really great guy today. He was always so happy, funny, and loved to tell jokes. He was really good natured and fun to be around. I will miss him terribly.
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lol ... see and I admire distance swimmers, so we are even!
Kari,
Hello (& cyber handshake) to you! Another IM'er. Great! Nice to meet you. Sorry about your spelling issues today. lol. Yes, if you're still interested, I was at the meet this weekend. Not swimming, but helping my friend at the Illusions swimwear booth.
Karen,
Wow! this is confusing...Kari, Karen, Kira, Kyra. I'll need coffee before coming into the forum. :)
No problem re: set-up. I got it covered and yes, tomorrow will be my "new" start back. 6:45am b/c I have school at night these days. Don't you go at 7pm? Being w/ another breaststroker would be fun (not to mention great swimming w/ a friend), so maybe I'll "cut" once or twice for a 7pm workout. I feel like such a rebel. ;)
Kira - LOL! Nope - I'm not an IMer; I only worship them. My best events are 200 free and up!
I would love to visit sometime and join you guys for a workout; probably on a Saturday, so hopefully we'll get to meet face to face in the near future.
hmmm ... could work ... I like Kaitlin because Kaitlin Sandeno swims a lot of events and I am known on my team for swimming as many events as USMS rules allow and trying to sneak into an extra event (shh!) every so often. ;)
Keather could work though!
OK,
See what happens w/out coffee? I'm ALREADY confused. So Kari, you're not an IM'er. Yes, I misread that. I like distance free too. That'd be great if you came out some Sat.!
Keather :) hopefully I'll see you at 6:45. It'll be fun.
Kaitlin, nice to meet you.
Whew! That's alot of K's
lol...
You, are Kira. Kyra, is Seagurl51, Karen you know, Kari swims with Davis, I Keather/Heather/Kaitlin am one person and I live and swim in Chicago ...
