It is a shame that Mary Descenza can't get things together during Olympic years. She always seems to do well during non-Olympics when history doesn't care about non-Olympic years.
1 Phelps, Michael F 23 North Baltimore- 1:57.45 1:54.31M
25.67 54.55 (28.88)
1:24.52 (29.97) 1:54.31 (29.79)
:applaud:
No kidding. That is a beautifully split 200. Wish I could say I always do that, but alas I cannot.
--mj
p.s. Nice to meet you at T-hills!
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
Saw it on TV. Berens admitted afterward that his back foot completely slipped off the block on the start, so he had lots of ground to make up. That last turn was simply Phelpsesque. He obliterated Hayden just on that turn.
No kidding. That is a beautifully split 200. Wish I could say I always do that, but alas I cannot.
--mj
p.s. Nice to meet you at T-hills!
Thanks MJ! Nice to meet you too.
I wish I could say I've ever swum a 200 fly like that, but 1:54 is faster than my lifetime best in yards...
Another day, another round of prelims. We got to see 20 heats of 50 frees dive in the water one after the other in quick succession. One of the swimmers I'm housing was in the third heat but got out-touched to first place by a hundredth of a second. My other guy took second in the 200 backstroke.
We went to Quiznos for lunch and none other than Ricky Berens walked in while we were eating.
Once again, Phelps is the only person I see getting his blood taken. He had a banana in between.
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 am so sick of Rowdy Gaines's suit analysis. Who the heck cares about what suit people are wearing. I can see what suits they are wearing.
Did anyone see some of the swimmers with the long backstroke flipturn. Some of these guys are on their stomach for quite a while. Yes, it was one continuous motion but man, was it long. I saw Coventry do that.
