Another Tech Suit Thread

PS - i'm still going to the do the entire decathalon tomorrow! Already did my laundry and downy fresh towels back in the car!!! PPS - YOU CAN STILL DECK ENTER AGAIN TOMORROW!!!!! See you there!!!!!

PS - i'm still going to the do the entire decathalon tomorrow! Already did my laundry and downy fresh towels back in the car!!! PPS - YOU CAN STILL DECK ENTER AGAIN TOMORROW!!!!! See you there!!!!! I too am doing the entire decathlon on the basis that I am not a sprinter, therefore should improve relatively as the morning progresses. Come and say :wave: . I'll be wearing my old team's cap with my name on - looks professional, but unfortunately doesn't help me to swim faster! And your 100 fly was awesome BTW.

The daily grand prize drawings were a $100 "travel voucher" for USMS nationals and a $100 gift certificate from Kiefer. The mystery 200 IM order was: free, fly, back, ***. The mystery 100 IM order was: ***, free, back, fly. The decathalon champion in the women's division was none other than yours truly. I won a $50 gift certificate to D&J. So come on out next year for more fun!

And the order was to be remembered??? OH ! my aching brain!!!!!!:cane:

I was in awe of Michelle on Saturday, she kicked booty...

It sounds like the meet was a lot of fun. I wish there were more masters meets around where I live.

Note to no200fly: I highly recommend training with no goggles. Note to self: When scratching an event, do not write "not sure yet" by name. You WILL INDEED be entered in that 100 fly that you didn't intend to swim!!! The second day of the meet included swims by a gold medalist Olympian and several new (Republic of Texas) world records. I chose to swim the super sprint pentathlon leaving the longer races (50 of each stroke and 200 IM) for others. Unfortunately, I did not take the advice of chowmi above and swam with goggles. Fourth competition, 25 fly. I didn’t feel choppy today and was able to ease past chowmi’s time (probably helped that she did 400 yds of sprints before my first race). Round 4, no200fly. Fifth competition, 25 back. I hate backstroke. I don’t like any stroke where water gets into my nose. If not for the IM, I would just as soon do away with it; however, I made the best of it (it’s just a 25) and with a less than perfect finish, I still managed to beat chowmi. Round 5, no200fly. Sixth competition, mystery 100 IM. This is the IM where they draw the order just before the meet starts – in this case ***, free, back, fly. I concentrate on the order on the block and get a good start but as I enter the water, I lose my goggles - again. This time, I don’t continue the race. Round 6, chowmi. Seventh competition, 25 ***. After losing my goggles twice in the same race in one weekend, I am rededicated to finish strong in the last two events. I started working on my breaststroke a couple of years ago when I thought shoulder problems were going to keep me from swimming fly. I had a good start and finish. Round 7, no200fly. Final, final competition, 25 free. I have never been really fast in sprint freestyle. When I was in college, Richard Quick tried to make me into a distance freestyler – that’s when I learned that I was not fast in distance freestyle. In the second women’s heat, chowmi set a new Republic of Texas World Record. That was too much for me. Round 8, chowmi. To echo what others said, this meet is a lot of fun. So, mark your calendar and plan to attend next year.

Too funny no200fly! You will have to change your name to nogoggles! Actually Coach Victoria beat me solidly in the sprint penthalon - she banked .6 spread in the 100 IM and we each won 2 of the 4 25,'s but that spread was too difficult to make up, along with her ***. I swam the 50's as fast off the block & breakouts, then did them as 'back half of the 100". I build the 200 mystery IM, knowing that if you miscalculate, that last 50 *** could be a total time-eater! Then I started with true all-out punch on the 50 free and into the last 4 x 25's and mystery IM. The funnest events were the ones where you get out and grab the stop watch to time the next heats. It was so campy to have to do that! The next funnest things was to see swimmers come in to watch and then be heckled into swimming the meet.

I really like the DAM meets. They are well run but not so formal that people take them too seriously. When announcing my name for the start of the 25 ***, Bobby said "I wonder if he will keep his goggles on this time." It's pretty cool to have a meet where you can literally step up on a block, for a race about to begin, and yell out your intent to enter. For everybody who did not come this year, plan to be there next year - it's a lot of fun and you can witness Round 9 and beyond.

. For everybody who did not come this year, plan to be there next year - it's a lot of fun and you can witness Round 9 and beyond. I fully intend on being there again - perhaps by then Bobby will have figured out how to pronounce my surname (which is very easy) rather than reverting to first names only as he announced the lanes :) And we need more people - I needed more rest between heats to socialise.