USA-S Swim Meets / Events

Fri Jun 12th, 2009

SR Cir Meet & Practice
2009 Texas Senior Circuit Long Course # 3
wore a new Speedo FS PRO

FRI

swimming this meet with Tyler, Todd, & David Guthrie, Jon Smiley hung out with us too. Saw Josh Davis today he was at the swim center working with the swim camp kids
David and Jon asked me if I'm going to Nats, said Ande and tyler you ought to go Nats so we can do relays. So I brought it up with Beth.

woke up at 4:15 to take my aunts to the airport
did part of the team work out at 6:30
went to whole foods
came back, hung out, changed into PRO
did a little warmup in a lane next to Dara Torres


Tyler swam the 200 FL, told him I'd pay him 10 bucks if he kept his last 3 50's with in 025 of each other, then I changed it to half a second
he went 31.21, 36.22, 36.87, 36.31 2:20.61
so I didn't have to pay but he was close

David G was pissed that USS rules don't allow swimmers to wear blue seventy or aqua zone suits


04 400 Freestyle
Starter had us take our marks then stand up twice before he let us start

dove in SDKed
swam smooth, 2 beat kicked, breathed every stroke, attempted to keep an even pace, should have gone out even easier, needed to finish stronger, I hoped to go faster
needed to be tougher

Wonder what I could have gone with better splitting and a rocket science suit?

but it's a starting point and maybe an ending point
47 Rasmussen, Ande 46 TXLA-ST
4:36.77
r:+0.93
30.41
33.48 1:03.89
34.53 1:38.42
35.36 2:13.78 1:09.89
35.22 2:49.00
36.03 3:25.03 1:11.25
36.35 4:01.38
35.39 4:36.77 1:11.74 2:22.99


10 050 Freestyle
36 Rasmussen, Ande 46 TXLA-ST
25.76
breathed 3 or 4 times,
wasn't super psyched
last year in this same meet I went 24.50

so the questions are

Why didn't I swim the 50 as fast as I did last year?

What can I do to swim faster in the next few months?

Last year I:
kept resting after nationals
focused on strength and speed,
did very little aerobic training
was more psyched
swam the race fresh and
wore a blue seventy

This year I:
did longer harder training after nationals with little strength and speed work,
swam the race after a 400,
wore a speedo PRO
rested 2 days

think I'm going to scratch the 200 free
so I can swim the 200 bk fresh

SAT
14 200 Freestyle
18 200 Backstroke
20 100 Butterfly

SUN
28 200 Individual Medley
38 050 Butterfly

Whitney told me to take the 200 back out in 1:05 high to 1:06 low

here's the link to my blog about last years Sr Cir Meet



TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE

scy
6:30 - 8:00
Whitney Coached
TSC diving well
swam with chris, todd, doug, marcio, ned, & larry

Warm Up LCM
assigned 1000
did around 600

she split the diving well in half
6 lanes to race in heats
5 lanes to warm down in


4 x 50 fast for time in heats, 150 easy
kept em smooth
went 27, 25, 25, 23.9


assigned: 4 x 100 fast from a dive in heats 100 easy
skipped it

assigned: 200 fast in heats 100 easy
skipped it

NEXT MEETS

Senior Circuit #3
Fri June 12 - 14, 2009
1 Day away
Austin, TX

Events Entered:
FRI
04 400 Freestyle
10 050 Freestyle
SAT
14 200 Freestyle
18 200 Backstroke
20 100 Butterfly
SUN
28 200 Individual Medley
38 050 Butterfly


USMS South Central Zone Long Course Championship Meet
Fri July 18 - 19 2009
Woodlands, TX
Meet Entry Form

Friday July 17th Aerosmith is playing with ZZ Top at the
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion in the Woodlands
Tickets

Thu Mar 5th, 2009

DAY 1 Austin Grand Prix Psych Sheet

RESULTS
believe the meet was dual sanctioned

THU PRELIMS

#05 100 Butterfly
went 51.80
23.83
27.97
Took it out hard and tried to hold on

#08 200 IM
went 1:58.39
25.80
30.38
34.55
27.66
I was hoping to beat 1:58.9

Event 12 Men 400 Yard Medley Relay
1 Longhorn Aquatic-ST 'B' 3:28.46
1) 25.83 53.32 Rasmussen, Ande 45
2) 27.37 58.45 Bartee, Todd 39
3) 23.21 49.93 Blessing, Tyler 36
4) 22.38 46.76 Varozza, Michael 41


THU FINALS

Event 5 Men 100 LC Meter Butterfly
35 Rasmussen, Ande 45 Longhorn Aquatic WENT 59.40
27.88 31.52


NEXT MEET:
2009 South Central Zone USMS Championships
Friday March 27 - Sun March 29, 2009
21 days away


NEXT MEET
USMS MASTERS NATIONALS
May 8 - 10
http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/
63 days away

Monday Jan 19th, 2009

SWAM In the meet today
Results and comments blogged at
http://andesswimmingblog.blogspot.com
short cut: http://TinyURL.com/AndeSwim


mon
100 fl
50 bk

NEXT MEET: USA Swimming Austin Grand Prix in Austin TX
March 5 - 7, 2009
45 days away
Meet format: Short Course AM, Long Course PM http://www.utexas.edu/longhornaquatics/meets
Time Standards are up

Ventured back to the pool today to swim another 200. The vlogger guessed it -- 200 IM. Naturally, I fully intended and would have preferred to swim it with my B70. Indeed, I brought my 23+ swims B70 to the pool for this very purpose!

But as fans of Vlad the Vlogger, that evil disseminator of private text messages, already know, I busted a huge hole in the suit. A friend, scyfreestyler, said: "I told you to kick ass, not show ass." Fortunately, for everyone involved, I did NOT pull a Laura Smith, as my wardrobe malfunction occurred in the privacy of the locker room. Right on the heels of having set a PR by shimmying into it in 2 minutes flat ... Perhaps that was a sign ... Spurned, I reached into my bag and, lo and behold, I left the Hineck Pro I wore for yesterday's 200 back on the drying rack ... So I was forced to borrow a dry suit from my daughter: bright pink floral Splish suit.

Thusly attired, and with 30 years of rust, I rather cautiously approached the blocks for the event. I was spurred on by the sure knowledge that my daughter would never let me live it down if I didn't swim (and would be thrilled to be so much faster than me) and that Stevenson (or others) would haul out the "ninny" word. So I gamely gave it a whirl and finished in a 2:26.35.

I must confess I completely bonked on the last 50. No gas left at all. I was also coffee breaking on the turns. Don't know what my splits were as I was swimming in a different pool than my daughter. (Her coaches sometimes get my splits.) Still, I was happy with the time, and suspect I would have gone roughly 2 seconds faster if properly clad.


Thoughts:

Woke up today and despite a lot of stretching and fluids my calves were still sore from the cramping yesterday. They cramped again right on the start. I think this reduced my enjoyment of the race. I felt like I was SDK-ing like a wee baby. lol Stud says I need to try tonic water.

I also wish I could say I liked this event like Hulk, but, truly, I did not. That was the most pain I've felt as a masters swimmer since the piano fell on my long course 100 fly this summer. Ack. This event might have been a little ambitious for me, and is definitely not for drop dead sprinters. The 200 back seemed comparatively easier. But, still, I'm glad I broke out of my comfort zone this weekend and tried two new events.

I took 3 strokes from the flags before flipping on backstroke today. Was very close to the wall. I guess now that I have a ripped B70, I can haul the thing with me to the pool and practice turns in it. (Tank underneath of course.)

Didn't swim the 100 back today. My seed time hadn't been changed in the system. Wouldn't have gotten enough rest. Reminder never to even think of doing back to back events.

I really didn't enjoy swimming without a tech suit and have no intention whatsoever of repeating this incident!!!!!! I guess I know not to push B70's 25 swims promise without a back up suit.

Broke out of my drop dead sprinter mold today!

Swam the 200 back for the first time in 30 years. (Never swam it as a freshman in college because we had a designated backstroker.) I'm glad I did it too, even though it's a decidedly different kind of pain than sprinting -- an insidious creeping all over kind of pain. Couldn't do it on a regular basis though.

I was secretly hoping to go around 2:26, as that was the cut off for Top Ten last year. Went a 2:22.36 ... very happy with the time. The swim, however, was, er, an adventure. Calves cramped slightly on the start. But mainly I had a hard time negotiating all the turns. Ideally, I need to take 2 and 1/2 strokes from the flags in before flipping. If I take 2, I glide in; if I take 3, I jam the wall. Decided to take 2 today and glided in big time to most of my turns. My streamlines off the wall weren't so great either. Didn't want to SDK much, but overcompensated and broke out too early. Obviously, my inexperience showed. These things never really discourage me, though, they just make me realize I could go faster if I fixed the problems.

Despite how blastedly tired I felt when the race ended and now, I'm not completely dissuaded from trying it again. (This thought does not apply to the 200 fly, which I still will not try under any known circumstances.)

Don't know what my splits were as the results aren't posted yet.

Still trying to decide whether to swim the 100 backstroke right before my secret event tomorrow or just the secret event. Probably just the latter unless I wake up loads of energy. I love cruising into USS meets and only doing an event or two with no pressure for practice.

I did end up signing up for the 200 backstroke at Auburn, though not the open 100 as it's right before the 50 fly. So I have to decide whether to swim it for a 100 split or just swim it. It would be my last event of the meet. And, by the way, I can't imagine swimming any event within a couple hours of a 200. Those are hard to recover from.