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.
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Was Ion there?
He doesn't show up in the results.
On the timing issue. Most of the reliable volunteer timers were swimming. Our masters team is comprised mostly of age group parents. Usually that is not a big deal, but this time I noticed a lot of timing chairs empty and many of the timers that were there seemed pretty green.
Other than that it was a pretty fun meet. The highlight for me was talking to an older gentleman who said he had been swimming butterfly since 1933. It occurred to me that was around the time it was first swum in competition.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Butterfly_stroke
Kevin
Was Ion there?
He doesn't show up in the results.
On the timing issue. Most of the reliable volunteer timers were swimming. Our masters team is comprised mostly of age group parents. Usually that is not a big deal, but this time I noticed a lot of timing chairs empty and many of the timers that were there seemed pretty green.
Other than that it was a pretty fun meet. The highlight for me was talking to an older gentleman who said he had been swimming butterfly since 1933. It occurred to me that was around the time it was first swum in competition.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Butterfly_stroke
Kevin
