Race:
Masters Swim Meet (scy)
Date:
February 19, 2012
Location: Cranberry, PA
Had another great swim meet yesterday. I did 4 events.
(1) 100-yard IM in
1:19.30. This broke my old record by 2 seconds. I attempted to do the fly-back
turn the way my coach taught me, but i think I failed in that endeavor. So it
wasn't pretty but what I did still worked. I came in 5th out of 6 in my
gender-age group. That's actually an improvement--this may be the first time I
ever beat someone in my group!
(2) 50-yard butterfly in 34.84 seconds. This again broke my old record by 2
seconds. A third-place win (out of 3). My friend Dan said I looked good but held
my head up. I'll work on that.
(3) 25-yard freestyle in 13.91 seconds. I did not beat my personal best this
time. I was off by two tenths of a second. A third place win (out of 3). This
was despite the fact that I had just cut my toe and the bleeding had stopped
only a minute before I climbed to the starting block. I thought maybe I'd have
to scratch, but no one around me seemed to care that I was swimming with a
bloody toe.
(4) My best race was my last. I swam the 200-yard freestyle in 2:38.86 (3rd
out of 3). This beat my old record from October 2011 by 14 seconds. I destroyed
the other swimmers in my heat. I finished so much before them that I wondered if
I had counted laps wrong. When I was done I realized I wasn't even breathing
hard. I could have swum harder!
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
AMYMSA Swim Meet
Race:
Masters Swim Meet (scy)
Date: February 5, 2012
Location: Clearfield, PA
My meet yesterday was at the Clearfield YMCA. It’s a brand new pool. I did 4 events and set personal bests in all of them:
1. 100 IM = 1:19.64 is about 2 seconds better than when I did the event in October. Somebody on my team told me I flutter-kicked between backstroke and breaststroke. I said “yes, that sounds like something I would do!” I’m within 6 seconds of my best friend, so I know I’ll beat him at some point. Age Group Rank: 4 out of 4.
2. 50 Fly = 35.45 is about 2 seconds faster than my personal best. The swim went well, but my ending was terrible—I hit the wall at midstroke so that was a little awkward and probably added a second to my time. Age Group Rank: 3 out of 3.
3. 25 Free = 13.72 is about 0.3 sec faster than my personal best. Of course there is a lot of measurement error with such a short event combined with human stop-watch operators. I remember breathing a few times, and this shouldn’t be necessary so I know that’s one way to improve. I got first place in my gender-age group for this event because no one else did it. Age Group Rank: 1 out of 1.
4. 50 Back = 41.16 is considerably less than the seed time of 47.0 that I submitted, but that was simply a guess because I had never done this event before. I think my start was reasonably good for someone who hasn’t had much practice. I don’t know if my hands and head landed in the right spot, but it felt fine. I really flew on the first 25 and despite paying attention to the flags I flipped over far too late to do a flipturn at the wall so I did an open turn. On my way back, my friend said my hips/torso was undulating side-to-side too much. I sometimes (often?) do this in freestyle, too, and I’m not sure whether this is fatigue or just too much [wild] enthusiasm during a race. Speaking of wild enthusiasm, at the end of the 50 yards I somehow ended up in the corner of the lane and missed touching the pad, so I think I might have been a second or two faster than indicated. Age Group Rank: 2 out of 2.
I’ve now acquired 100 points over 6 meets this season. I’m still the slowest member of my gender-age group but I’m having a blast.
Date: February 5, 2012
Location: Clearfield, PA
My meet yesterday was at the Clearfield YMCA. It’s a brand new pool. I did 4 events and set personal bests in all of them:
1. 100 IM = 1:19.64 is about 2 seconds better than when I did the event in October. Somebody on my team told me I flutter-kicked between backstroke and breaststroke. I said “yes, that sounds like something I would do!” I’m within 6 seconds of my best friend, so I know I’ll beat him at some point. Age Group Rank: 4 out of 4.
2. 50 Fly = 35.45 is about 2 seconds faster than my personal best. The swim went well, but my ending was terrible—I hit the wall at midstroke so that was a little awkward and probably added a second to my time. Age Group Rank: 3 out of 3.
3. 25 Free = 13.72 is about 0.3 sec faster than my personal best. Of course there is a lot of measurement error with such a short event combined with human stop-watch operators. I remember breathing a few times, and this shouldn’t be necessary so I know that’s one way to improve. I got first place in my gender-age group for this event because no one else did it. Age Group Rank: 1 out of 1.
4. 50 Back = 41.16 is considerably less than the seed time of 47.0 that I submitted, but that was simply a guess because I had never done this event before. I think my start was reasonably good for someone who hasn’t had much practice. I don’t know if my hands and head landed in the right spot, but it felt fine. I really flew on the first 25 and despite paying attention to the flags I flipped over far too late to do a flipturn at the wall so I did an open turn. On my way back, my friend said my hips/torso was undulating side-to-side too much. I sometimes (often?) do this in freestyle, too, and I’m not sure whether this is fatigue or just too much [wild] enthusiasm during a race. Speaking of wild enthusiasm, at the end of the 50 yards I somehow ended up in the corner of the lane and missed touching the pad, so I think I might have been a second or two faster than indicated. Age Group Rank: 2 out of 2.
I’ve now acquired 100 points over 6 meets this season. I’m still the slowest member of my gender-age group but I’m having a blast.
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