SwimBeyond Blog

Hey This morning I had my last swim practice of my college career--that's kind of scary--all that time I was counting down days and praying for the end to come and now it's here. Tomorrow we leave for Rutger's University (we have a "warm-up" practice there in the afternoon, and then it's to the hotel to shave and rest up for the start of the Metropolitan conference swim champs. (http://www.besmarttinc.com) Friday I'm swimming the 500free (seated 14th with a 5:30.) I feel pretty good about this race--I'm really happy it's the first day of the meet because I want to just get it done with and all. The school record is a 5:22.81, I don't think thats so unreasonable that its unachievable, but my goal is just to do a best time, and really work my walls and give it everything I got--we'll see where that puts me. We've also got the 200freestyle relay that day I believe. Saturday I have the 400medley relay (freestyle), 100fly (seated 19th with a 1:04.14) and then back to back with that is the 200freestyle (seated 20th with a 2:04.10ish) I think I definitely have room to improve in both of those events. The record in the 200free is a 2:00.21 which i missed by .05 two years ago...because the two individuals are back to back though, I am going to lead off the 800free relay that night, where I will hopefully have had a little more rest. And then Sunday all I have is anchoring the 400freestyle relay. I've got a brand new Fastskin II bodyskin to try out for the meet, and I feel like we tapered pretty well--I don't think we're as rested as in past years--we've been doing a lot of broken race pace things which we had dropped earlier in the taper in the past, but I think that might be beneficial in the long run. I'll update while I am at the meet...but the website also has live results. Wednesday February 20, 2008 6-720am (whole team) scy Lane two: swam with Mary, Rose, Kaity, Christine, Jen 800freestyle 2x200 kick (100fly, 100free) 400pull (without buoy or snorkel) 12x25 drill on .40 (4free-4fly-4free) 4x 50 (broken relay) 2x 12.5 breakouts from a start 100 ez 2225 yards *tomorrow at warm up I plan on doing a long swim (800-1000swim), a long kick, some drill 25s/50s, some build 75s and maybe some pace 50s.