OK this season try a new event that you are fearful of or have never tried. What will it be ?
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Oh never mind. I think the meet director has decided to pull the order of events out of a hat right before the race, and everyone has to do it in that order. So i'm wishing for the worst event order and just outlasting the competition, and overwearing my full arsenal of swimskins. I just have to decide the optimal order to stack my suits, and still be able to bend over to take my mark....
That would be our annual Febrauaryish/Marchish SCY meet. Details TBD. Come to our meet. You can set a Republic of Texas Masters swimming record. But I still highly recommend wearing your seatbelt, paying your taxes, and getting a license for that shotgun.
Do you think we can turn on the heat this year? It is Texas and all, but it is still February.
OK this season try a new event that you are fearful of or have never tried. What will it be ?
Masters Nationals at GA Tech...for better or for worse!:applaud:
Do you do these events in practice? This should b the place to try them for form & then do it in a meet!
In the last week or so before a meet, I always make sure to do my harder events in practice. Today I did a 400 IM in practice since I'm racing one on the 22nd. I wasn't happy with today's effort so I'll do it again sometime next week. I'm also entered in the 200 fly so I'll do that as well, but in a different practice :).
A life-long (minus the 25 years I did not swim) pool sprinter (50's and 100's), I did three open water events this year (first open water races ever for me) - a 'slow' river 2K, a lake 3K and my all time favorite, the swim from Alcatraz. Really liking the open water, but in Texas open-water events are not easy to find. Think I'll try the 500 and 1600 free in a pool this year and maybe the 200 *** (unless, of course, I can get to an open-water event that is the same day). Also thinking of making Alcatraz a yearly event. :fish2:
Yesterday I swam my first 400m and did it in 6:08. Today I swam the 200m *** for the first time and finished in 3:30:80 - currently the 10th fastest time in my age group this year. :woot:
My entry is in. I'm swimming the 400 free, 200 back, 200 IM and 50 free.
Knelson officially tore it up today. 4:21 in the 400 SCM free (LMSC record), 2:26 in the 200 back, 2:21 in the 200 IM (LMSC record), and I think 26 in the 50 free. Then Knelson left and strangely enough, that's when things got interesting! Lincoln Djang entered one event in this meet - the 400 IM, seeded with a 4:57. I was seeded in the lane next to him and was wondering if he was there. He walked up to the blocks with about a minute to spare and I realized "oh yeah, I did see him warming up before, though I had no idea who he was." So then the announcer explains that Lincoln is seeded with the current M50-54 world record time, and he is going for it. The announcer got everyone on their feet and cheering before the race even started! I've seen plenty of Masters world records set, but I'd never seen a setup like this before. So we dive in and swim the 400 IM. Even though I was in the water swimming, I could hear that it was loud. During my last 50 I could tell he got the record because of the even louder eruption of cheering. Indeed, Lincoln went 4:55.50 and then the announcer interviewed him at poolside while the rest of us warmed down. Then in the following relay, a guy hit his head on the shallow end wall and DNF. There's no touchpad down there so he hit concrete. Lifeguards did a great job helping him out; paramedics came but ultimately were not needed... whew. Next event was the 100 fly - in the final heat I tied for first although we went slower than the Alaskan dude in the previous heat. I don't remember ever being involved in a tie race before. See Kirk, you shouldn't have left so early...
