I was there. Saw him in prelims, saw him make the final time, saw him do the windmill arms and everything.
He's amazing.
He doesn't even look like he's going that fast. Just another day swimming for him. He also likes to get his blood taken, like two or three times after his races, all of them before, between, or after warmdowns (something I didn't notice about practically every other one of the swimmers).
Another great race was the 200 free final, that came down between Ricky Berens and Brent Hayden. Fantastic race! Hayden led the way for the first 150, and then Berens completely crushed him with a tremendous underwater DK (and Hayden was pulling off a pretty long underwater himself!). The swimmers I'm housing (who train with Hayden at UBC) say he doesn't usually stay underwater very long, but I guess Berens was drawing him out.
BTW, I'm confused about which thread I should use for Santa Clara stuff- there's another thread that's Santa Clara-specific, but this one is more generalized, but includes SC. :confused:
I was there. Saw him in prelims, saw him make the final time, saw him do the windmill arms and everything.
He's amazing.
He doesn't even look like he's going that fast. Just another day swimming for him. He also likes to get his blood taken, like two or three times after his races, all of them before, between, or after warmdowns (something I didn't notice about practically every other one of the swimmers).
Another great race was the 200 free final, that came down between Ricky Berens and Brent Hayden. Fantastic race! Hayden led the way for the first 150, and then Berens completely crushed him with a tremendous underwater DK (and Hayden was pulling off a pretty long underwater himself!). The swimmers I'm housing (who train with Hayden at UBC) say he doesn't usually stay underwater very long, but I guess Berens was drawing him out.
BTW, I'm confused about which thread I should use for Santa Clara stuff- there's another thread that's Santa Clara-specific, but this one is more generalized, but includes SC. :confused:
