I just got back from California where I swam in the SPMA Zone meet at Mission Viejo over the weekend. I met both Mel Dyck and Kevin Joyce. Nice to meet you both!
I suppose I can gloat about my victory over Kevin in the 100 free. We were right next to each other, in lanes 4 and 5. Kevin had me at the 50 (28.24 to 29.15), but I was able to pull away on the second 50 and won 58.65 to 1:00.09. I'm happy with that time, but really I should have been out faster.
My other big adventure was having to swim the 400 free twice! When I touched the wall I looked up and saw a 4:23 on the scoreboard and I knew that was wrong. Turns out the manual timer just wrote down what the board said (yeah, not real useful) so they had no "real" time to use. The end result was I had to swim again if I wanted a legal time, and I did. I was a couple seconds slower than what I presume my time was the first time around based on the splits, but I'm pretty happy considering it was my fourth race of a looong day!
Anyway, saw some great swims and met a few new folks. Congrats to those who competed and good luck to those going to Nationals this weekend.
Timing screw-ups happen. I was just happy they gave me the chance to swim again. It wasn't exactly the ideal scenario, but that's the way it goes!
Hopefully my time will get me into Top Ten. What I'm afraid of is my first swim, which was probably around 4:33 would have gotten me in, but my second swim will be just a little too slow. I guess I've still got time to get down to the Woodlands and bust a couple kneecaps, a la Tonya Harding. Just kidding, of course! :joker:
Timing screw-ups happen. I was just happy they gave me the chance to swim again. It wasn't exactly the ideal scenario, but that's the way it goes!
Hopefully my time will get me into Top Ten. What I'm afraid of is my first swim, which was probably around 4:33 would have gotten me in, but my second swim will be just a little too slow. I guess I've still got time to get down to the Woodlands and bust a couple kneecaps, a la Tonya Harding. Just kidding, of course! :joker:
