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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.
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Well we got home this morning around 1am. I had tons of homework that didn't get done so I stayed up until 3am to get some of it done and now I am up at 7am trying to get some more of it done. Sheesh.
Yesterday, aka last day of the meet, went pretty well. I split a 56.44 off the relay (went 2nd) in the morning. (2nd fastest split on the relay so I stayed haha) We actually all did pretty decent splits so the whole relay stayed in tact, and we ended up breaking the school record in that event as well. They haven't put the results up yet from last night, but I believe I went out a little slower in the 100free but our overall time dropped a hair and so we lowered the record a tad bit more.
I'll take today off from the pool and get back in probably tomorrow morning since I have a meet this weekend (masters). Might go for a run today or if I get a lot of my work done I could head over to speedskating tonight.
Well we got home this morning around 1am. I had tons of homework that didn't get done so I stayed up until 3am to get some of it done and now I am up at 7am trying to get some more of it done. Sheesh.
Yesterday, aka last day of the meet, went pretty well. I split a 56.44 off the relay (went 2nd) in the morning. (2nd fastest split on the relay so I stayed haha) We actually all did pretty decent splits so the whole relay stayed in tact, and we ended up breaking the school record in that event as well. They haven't put the results up yet from last night, but I believe I went out a little slower in the 100free but our overall time dropped a hair and so we lowered the record a tad bit more.
I'll take today off from the pool and get back in probably tomorrow morning since I have a meet this weekend (masters). Might go for a run today or if I get a lot of my work done I could head over to speedskating tonight.
