Ande's Swimming Blog

Sat Apr 14, 2012 NITRO MEET

Entered Sharkfest Austin Swim - 1.5 miles
my first open water swim since the mile swim at boyscout camp


Nitro Masters Open
Entered: 4, 2 & 1 IM, 50 fr & 200 BR

reshaved Sat morn

had a good warm up,
nice pool but cloudy water and dark building,
edges had no lip to grip but the walls were grippy not slippy, no touch pads, hand timed not electronic, no splits

Warm Up
swam easy free & did IM drills

Main Set

400 IM
best this season was 4:34
went 4:26.4
teammates eye balled my splits and said they were about 59 68 77 61

had descent rest after the 4 IM, but felt fatigued

200 IM
went 2:04.5
best this season was 2:03.5

skipped 50 fr & 1 IM

200 BR
went 2:26
31 37 37 39
felt pretty worn out after 2 & 4 IM

Tyler and I talk about which IM sequence is likely to be the fastest
he thinks its BR FL FR BK
I think it's FL BR FR BK

He went 54 in the 100 IM at zones and at the nitro meet did his 100 IM BR FL FR BK
went 53.7
The flip turn from FR to BK really helps and is much faster, of course he got deeked, I filmed the race on his IPHONE and after the start, I thought he's really kicking out far, but he was doing a breastroke pull out.

Swimmers should be able to select the stroke order in IMs

did not swim sunday
need to start lifting weights again

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2012 Meets (I'm considering)


Jul. 5 - 8, 2012
2012 USMS LCM Nationals
Qwest Center, Omaha, NE
Order of Events


Aug 11 & 12, 2012
South Central LCM Zones
Palo Alto Pool
San Antonio, TX