I'm not a new masters swimmer nor am I new to meets, but am new to the 400 IM. Truthfully, I'm a little concerned about my ability to make it through the event legally (well, I'm really mainly afraid of the 4th 25). I'm scheduled to swim the 400 IM at a meet this weekend (Saturday). There are twenty people entered, it's a 10 lane pool, and as luck would have it I'm seeded 11th. If only one person above me scratches, I'll be in a heat where the fastest person is seeded 1:40 faster than I am, and the slowest person (besides me) is still seeded 40 seconds faster than I am. My seed time is MUCH closer to the people seeded right behind me, and I think I seeded myself as accurately as I could.
So... I am extremely anxious about swimming in this heat, as I was already anxious about swimming the 400 IM. Do I scratch to save myself the humiliation and to save some energy for Sunday's events? Or do I get lapped at least twice by the leaders, once by the next slowest person, and tick everyone off for holding up the meet? I'm already swimming the 1000 earlier in the session, and the 400 IM will be my 4th event of the day. I really have mixed feelings about this.
And you did too! Let the record show that Elainiak won ALL the breaststroke events in her age group! A couple of PBs too! Well done!
Results --> www.clubassistant.com/.../st_pats_2011_results.pdf
:smooch:Thanks, Swimosaur! But, I'll be honest with ya here. I used my Auburn times as my seed times; not my PB's. Although I was close to hitting my PB on the 200 breaststroke and 100IM, I was way off on the 50 and 100. I had too deep of a start on the 50 and thought I was never going to surface; I thought I would DQ for not breaking the surface before my insweep! So, I missed my PB of 38.90 by 3.03 seconds. Ouch! Then, on the 100, today, I was 5 seconds off my PB! :badday: The lactic acid (or whatever you want to call it...) flooded me at the 75 mark and I was basically treading water to keep from :drown: on the last 25. I didn't have that problem yesterday on the 200 or 50, but the 100 breaststroke was my first event of the day, following a lousy warm up in the 88-90(?) degree kiddie pool that knocked me out. Oh well, the 100 breaststroke served as a good warm up for my 100IM, once I got rid of the lactic acid build up and got a second wind! :D
It was a fun meet and I enjoyed watching and :cheerleader: for the other Forumites and my non-Forumite buddies!
Swimosaur, I didn't get to meet you at Auburn, so I hope to meet you at Nationals; either SCY or LCM! :)
And you did too! Let the record show that Elainiak won ALL the breaststroke events in her age group! A couple of PBs too! Well done!
Results --> www.clubassistant.com/.../st_pats_2011_results.pdf
:smooch:Thanks, Swimosaur! But, I'll be honest with ya here. I used my Auburn times as my seed times; not my PB's. Although I was close to hitting my PB on the 200 breaststroke and 100IM, I was way off on the 50 and 100. I had too deep of a start on the 50 and thought I was never going to surface; I thought I would DQ for not breaking the surface before my insweep! So, I missed my PB of 38.90 by 3.03 seconds. Ouch! Then, on the 100, today, I was 5 seconds off my PB! :badday: The lactic acid (or whatever you want to call it...) flooded me at the 75 mark and I was basically treading water to keep from :drown: on the last 25. I didn't have that problem yesterday on the 200 or 50, but the 100 breaststroke was my first event of the day, following a lousy warm up in the 88-90(?) degree kiddie pool that knocked me out. Oh well, the 100 breaststroke served as a good warm up for my 100IM, once I got rid of the lactic acid build up and got a second wind! :D
It was a fun meet and I enjoyed watching and :cheerleader: for the other Forumites and my non-Forumite buddies!
Swimosaur, I didn't get to meet you at Auburn, so I hope to meet you at Nationals; either SCY or LCM! :)
