Results from the USMS 10K Championships?

Kristina...it was great to see you too, you did incredible!! Congrats on the first place and good luck at the 25k. I know you'll knock 'em out of the water. See you soon..can you believe we're swimming together again? Chris Glass Hartley

Hey Kristina, You looked so fresh after the 10K! While I was searching for the results I found some photos taken by the Greenville paper. There's one of you coming out of the water, and it looks like you could have done another 15K! Here it is: cmsimg.tribunetimes.com/.../bilde You're going to do great in the 25K! Me, I know I'm not quite ready for it... not sure that I ever will be in the right frame of mind -- what kind of yardage is required for that kind of swim? See you at the pool! Kristin

Oh my lord!! :D I need to do something about those guns! :rofl: I hope Landon doesn't see this! He may yell at me and tell me I didn't work it enough! :joker: If you look behind me, you'll see Matthew Rose, a great competitor. His sister is Olympic swimmer Gabrielle Rose (and a great swimmer and triathlete in his own right), and he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. He and I were head to head the entire way. It came down to the last 200 meters or so. I wish he was doing the 25K with me! Did you see him wearing the new blueseventy suit? He's a great walking advertisement for blueseventy. Hey now, Ironman(gal)! The 25K is less than the Ironman/ Half Ironman that you've done! This swim would be a piece of cake for you at least in terms of time. I'm not really sure as to what kind of yardage is required for a 25K. I'll let you know after I attempt it! I've been averaging around 80 to 85 miles a month for a few months. . . I may do a few doubles (4 or so total) averaging around 14K a day just to prove I can handle race day of 25K. But not any more than that as I doubt I'll be able to recover. SR I swims about 6500 meters (if it's fly day) and up to 8,500 meters if it's distance free day. It's really the intensity and not the distance that's the challenge for me at least. See you at SWAT! Great job again to you as well. I think we've both improved quite a bit over the past year. Debbie is a great masters coach and she gave me some good sighting tips before the swim.

Hi all, I was wondering if any of you might have a link to the results of the USMS 10K Open Water Championships held at Clemson this past Saturday. I looked on the Clemson Aquatic Team website but cannot find any information. Thanks! K Partial result: (S)he-man (A.K.A. her alias of Kristina) got 2nd overall and first woman in 2:19. -LBJ

These are the "unofficial" results, I'm guessing the official results will be posted on their website in the next few days. I didn't swim the 10k, only the 3. Were you at the swim?

Partial result: (S)he-man (A.K.A. her alias of Kristina) got 2nd overall and first woman in 2:19. -LBJ Yes, I am fortunate enough to know Kristina and have actually followed her in a lane at practice (I am NO WHERE NEAR her speed :laugh2:), and I am so happy that she did so well!

These are the "unofficial" results, I'm guessing the official results will be posted on their website in the next few days. I didn't swim the 10k, only the 3. Were you at the swim? Thanks so much for the links. I did do the swim -- my first 10K. It was not nearly as painful or as boring as I thought it might be. I actually think the shorter races are harder (of course, I am somewhat slow and that's probably why :-) ). Hope your 3K went well!

Kristin, you did wonderfully well! It was really fun wasn't it? It was so nice to see so many familiar faces - you, Chris Green, his son Collin, Keith Berryhill, Christina Hartley from the RAYS, Matt Rose from Dynamo/ Emory, David Eng from AWJ . . . Leonard was so instrumental in my swimming this SMART. Had I not spoken to him prior to a race like this I would have gone out too fast AND I would have not hydrated during the race. So thank you for all the very wise advice!! Leonard was so inspirational that I did send in my entry for the USMS 25K in 5 weeks. I hope to finish but we'll see. . . My training has really surrounded pool swimming, but oh well. . . Kristin, I wish we could get a group of us to do this together! Maybe we can host the event near us one year and get a bunch of us to swim it. Isn't this something that the Kesters would love?! But again, great job Kristin. I think you should try a 25K!

Oh my lord!! :D I need to do something about those guns! :rofl: Well, you could cut down on swimming. :joker: Or were you thinking more along the lines of tattoos or decorative scars? What did you use for sunblock?

Kristina...it was great to see you too, you did incredible!! Congrats on the first place and good luck at the 25k. I know you'll knock 'em out of the water. See you soon..can you believe we're swimming together again? Chris Glass Hartley You looked great Chris. I think I tell you every time I see you that you are completely ageless. Some people just get all the good genes. :bow: CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING A LONG DISTANCE NATIONAL CHAMPION!!!! I never would have guessed in a million years that we would both be swimming now. I remember complaining to you every day when we were kids about how sucky practices were. :lmao: Too bad we don't run into any more of our old swim buddies. . . We should get together for lunch sometime. My treat and we can catch up on all the gossip. My brother lives out where you are I believe. I don't know if I'll finish that 25K. In all honesty, I think I just like taking mini vacations with my husband. Tell me all about Worlds!?