Geeky Yet Waterproof

This weekend we had our second meet of the season, in Newburg. I swam the 200 IM and 1000 free on Friday, and the 200 free, 100 back, 50 free, and 200 fly on Sunday.

We didn’t have any relays on Sunday, because the only Bearcats there were Amanda, Allison, and I. Oh, and Allison wasn’t swimming.



200 IM: This was a fun race, because my heat consisted of Tori, Kyle, Adam, myself, and one person from a different team. I finished with 2:11 (which is a one-second improvement), and I think we all took 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.



1000 free: Kate gave me an easy strategy for this: go out at some speed, and stay at that speed! So I held 1:06’s for the first 700, and after that it was 1:05, 1:04, 1:03. I ended up getting 10:53, which was a 16-second drop from last year. I’m satisfied.



200 free: I came in 2nd in this race, with a 1:56. The guy I was racing was ahead of me for the first 125 yards — then I pulled ahead by about an arm’s-length, and kept my lead until the last 25, where he out-touched me by about half a second!



100 back: I didn’t even know I was swimming this event until about an hour before. But I ended up getting 2nd, with a 1:02 — right on my best time.



50 free: I don’t remember what time I got in this, but I think it was about .1 faster than last week — 24.something. My best time is 23.89, which I haven’t been able to break since I got it back in December at Husky.



200 fly: I had 5 minutes to rest in between the 50 free and 200 fly. But I think I did alright considering the situation — Al told me to be within five seconds of my best time (which is 2:08). I got 2:13.39, which is 4.5 seconds off my best. I also took 1st, since the next tallest person in my heat was about 5′0″…



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Off topic news: here is another specimen from our team photos last week…