USA-S Swim Meets / Events

Thu Jun 6th, 2013 Pan Ams Day 1
Pan Pacs, Tropical storm Andrea wreaked havoc on the Sarasota & the meet. We were just in its bands. It was off shore heading north east. Land fall will be a few hundred miles north of here.

They completed heat 5 of mens 4 IM in the morning
Then had a lightning detection so they told everyone to leave the deck, then they let everyone back then had another lightning detection along with severe weather, high winds, high tide & a tornado warning so they postponed the meet till 1:00 for warm ups & 1:30 to begin.

Event 4 Men 50-54 400 LC Meter IM
====================WORLD: W 4:53.69 8/2/2010 MARCUS MATTIOLI, BRA
NATL: N 5:04.32 7/26/2009 JAMIE FOWLER
===================
1 Rasmussen, Anders M 50
TXLA-USA 5:08.19 5:07.51
31.35
1:08.18 (36.83)
1:48.60 (40.42)
2:28.45 (39.85)
3:11.43 (42.98)
3:56.33 (44.90)
4:32.74 (36.41)
5:07.51 (34.77)

Man that race hurt.
it was Very windy
Less than ideal conditions
Shallow pool at starting end
I'm a bit heavy, gained weight during my Birthday
Pretty good swim but I was hoping to go a little faster.

My original plan was to skip the 50 FR, but I decided to do it.

Event 6 Men 50-54 50 LC Meter Freestyle
===================================
WORLD: W 24.08 6/27/2009 BRENT BARNES, JPN
NATL: N 24.58 8/9/2009 AMBROSE GAINES
Name Age Club Seed Finals
===================================
1 Rasmussen, Anders M 50 TXLA-USA 26.07 26.29
2 Beattie, John R 52 BLU-USA 25.71 26.74
3 Switzer, Keith M 50 CASC-USA 26.35 26.76
4 Stewart, Henry D 50 NCMS-USA 25.97 26.81
5 Francois, Jean-Marc 50 ECA-VEN 26.00 27.00
6 Saylor, Brian D 53 SYSM-USA 26.68 27.17
That was an OK swim
Especially after that 4 IM & not really training for sprints

Sat Jul 31st, 2010

I wasn't happy with my 100 fly at zones, I choked right off the turn so I've decided to deck enter the

2010 LONG COURSE SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
A LONG COURSE METER PRELIM FINALS MEET
Open to USAS registered clubs and swimmers in Texas and Louisiana
THE WOODLANDS SWIM TEAM
July 28 - July 31, 2010

RESULTS

did Thu work out

arrived on Thu
I was hoping to enter the 400 IM time trial and see if could could improve my 400 but it didn't work out

FRI

100 bk 1:04.54
78th place
30.76 33.78

100 fl 1:01.81
89th place
28.95 32.86

Sat

200 im
74th place
2:19.78
29.95
1:07.35 (37.40)
1:48.00 (40.65)
2:19.78 (31.78)

50 fr
25.67
tied for 54th which was my best placing


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Sun Jul 11th 2010

DAY 3 of Austin Sr Cir
RESULTS
entered in 200 IM, 50 br, 50 fl

Wore B70 NeroTX

PRELIMS

200 IM
29.42
36.17 1:05.59
40.54 1:46.13
32.32 2:18.45
this was my best time in the 45 - 49 age group
I went almost 3 seconds faster than I did last year when I wore a FULL BODY SUIT
my 2009 time was 2:21.24
In 2004 I went 2:18.08 wearing a Speedo FS 1 full body

50 BR
went 34.16

50 FL
went 27.50


FINALS

50 FL
went 27.48


2010 MEETS:

07/23/10 - 07/25/10
2010 South Central Long Course
Southlake, Texas
Days till LCM ZONES
Entered Zones yesterday & got my hotel

Fri Jul 9th 2010

Shaved

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scy
chris Coached
6:30 TO 8:30
Austin UT Swim Center diving well
swam with tyler jon & doug
beside mike, todd & Marcio plus james fike
Guest SAM PERRY was in DA house
dove in around 7:00


MAIN SET

swam easy
the guys were doing
4 rounds of 3 x 300 followed by 4 x 25
I did half the 300's & all the 25's
felt fine

did between 1500 & 200
mostly easy some fast

WENT to BREAKFAST at at Kerby Lane on the Drag with Sam Perry, Tyler, Todd & Doug Dude

warmed up again for the 50 fr

haven't really been training for 50's

wore a B70 Nero TX

thought I was in Heat 19
then realized it was heat 10
hopped up

Went 25.96
Hoped to go faster

It's my fastest time this season in a jammer


2010 MEETS:

July 8 - 11, 2010
Senior Circuit #4 Meet Info
Austin, TX
entered:

Fri
50 Freestyle

Sat
100 Butterfly
50 backstroke

Sun
200 Individual Medley
50 breastroke, &
50 butterfly


07/23/10 - 07/25/10
2010 South Central Long Course
Southlake, Texas
Days till LCM ZONES
Entered Zones yesterday & got my hotel

Saturday Mar 6th 2010 Austin Grand Prix Day 3

not feeling real snappy
I am returning to what works for me
speed training and racing
cut out aerobic work and distance
get stronger
lose weight
improve my SDK, flutter kick and breastroke kick

Austin Grand Prix Day 3
swam 100 fr (info below)
rested a bit for it & shaved chest arms & legs
huge meet, 1200 swimmers, some national team and olympians
I'm going to photograph tonights session

RESULTS
Psych Sheet


100 fr 50.38
r:+0.79
23.80 26.58
went out too hard



TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE

dick nichols
scy, main pool,
Whitney coached
7:00 - 8:30
tyler, jon, brad, & guest Graham Ginn
dove in on time
wore B70 legs
arrived 15ish minutes late

warm up:
missed it

6 x 150 on 2:00
started at 1:45

100 easy

6 x 100 k on 2:00
started at 1:45
did 1:09 - 1:14

100 easy

6 x ??? on 1:55
did 100's

100 easy

assigned 10 x 50 on 1:15
odds 1, 2 or 3 breaths
even strong
did skipped the odds
went medium strong on the evens

went 22.9 on last one from a dive

100 easy


2010 MEETS:


April 9 -11 The Woodlands, TX Countdown
2010 South Central Zone Short Course Championships
INFO


May 20 - 23, 2010 Atlanta, GA Georgia Tech Aquatic Center COUNTDOWN
2010 USMS Short Course National Championships
Order of Events

Friday Mar 5th 2010

Austin Grand Prix Day 2
swam 400 IM & 100 breastroke (info below)
rested a bit for it & shaved chest arms & legs
huge meet, 1200 swimmers, some national team and olympians
I'm going to photograph tonights session

RESULTS
Psych Sheet

[B]400 IM
went 4:24.48
got 114th out of 138
r:+0.84 (slow)
27.54
1:00.00 (32.46)
1:34.74 (34.74)
2:08.68 (33.94) 1:08.68
2:46.39 (37.71)
3:25.81 (39.42) 1:17.13
3:56.46 (30.65)
4:24.48 (28.02) 58.67
This is my best 400 SCY IM as a master
real sure I can go faster

Need to work on my RT seems I'm right in the mid 8/10ths of a sec
sluggish

just swam it easy speed breathed
a lot
worked the last 50

100 breast
went 1:05.53
r:+0.83
30.58
34.95


TODAYS SWIM PRACTICE

Swim Center
scy, main pool,
Whitney coached
5:30 - 6:30
swam with max, larry, nate, tyler, mike, ned, chris carter (a guest who's daughter is in the meet) james
wore brief
dove in on time
wore B70 full

warm up:
15 minutes choice

50 drop down set 30 x 50
start at 60 drop interval by 1 sec
till failure
made it to 30

100 easy

9 x 100 on 1:15
dove
swam easy speed
held 25 & 6

rest 100

50 fast
went 22

100 easy

25 SDK
roll
Tyler timed
went 9.9




2010 MEETS:


April 9 -11 The Woodlands, TX Countdown
2010 South Central Zone Short Course Championships
INFO


May 20 - 23, 2010 Atlanta, GA Georgia Tech Aquatic Center COUNTDOWN
2010 USMS Short Course National Championships
Order of Events

swam finals, here's how it went,
improved my time from prelims

Event 34 Boys 15 & Over 100 Yard Backstroke

6 Rasmussen, Ande 46 TXLA-ST
54.92 26.30 28.62
SDKs 10 10 8 6

took it out a half second faster
SDKs 10 10 8 6 (really hurting that last length)
jammed right middle finger on finish

Mon Jan 18th, 2010


PRACTICE & Meet

whitney coached
scy main pool
6 - 7:30
swam with tyler, todd, amy, paul, max larry, Marcio, Nate, mary & Meghan
dove in 6:10ish

wore leg skins to take it easy

warm up
250

main set

50 fast SDK
went 24

100 easy

100 fr fast
went 52

200 easy

200 fr fast
went 1:56

400 easy

assigned 800
did 8 x 50 with 5 or more SDKs

assigned 600
did 6 x 50 with 6 SDKs

assigned 400
did 4 x 50 with 6 sdks

assigned 200
did 2 x 50 with 6 sdks

100 easy


MEET

2010 ST TXLA New Years Classic


Meet Results


entered in the 200 fr & 100 bk
skipped the 200 fr to focus on the 100 bk

100 bk
went 55.35
26.81 28.54
made finals, didn't scratch, plan to it again tonight

Sun Jan 17th, 2010

[ame="http://www.usms.org/forums/showpost.php?p=203729&postcount=1334"]FINA BANNED full body tech suits for masters [/ame]

my son dane just competed in the cheer nationals in Orlando

PRACTICE & Meet

MEET

2010 ST TXLA New Years Classic

wore JAMMERS

Meet Results

RACED Men's 15 & Over 50 Free
went 22.48
got 9th, scratched finals
I'm pretty pleased

Tomorrow is:

200 Free 1:50.70Y (tempted to go for a 100 time)
100 Back 53.32Y

just found this

I'm in lane 2
FAR lane at the top of the screen

Men 50 Meters Butterfly (final A)
Texas Circuit #3, Austin
Lee and Joe Jamail Swim Center
Austin, TX, US
Jun 14 2009

Hill Taylor's 23.10 50 LCM SDK

Sunday Jun 14th, 2009

partial practice and meet

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

warmed up around 1200


SUN

PRELIMS

28 200 Individual Medley
wore rocket science
went 2:21.24
30.13 cruised the fly
37.91 1:08.04 cruised the back
42.16 1:50.20 worked the breast
31.04 2:21.24 worked the free
scratched finals

swam right next to todd bartee almost caught him, here's his splits
30.03
1:08.71 (38.68)
1:48.53 (39.82)
2:20.96 (32.43)


38 050 Butterfly
went 26.95
swimming it again tonight
had a long glide touch


FINALS

50 fly
wore rocket science
went 26.74
last year I went 26.03 at this meet
last year I kept resting after nationals
focused on strength and speed
but not this year


NEXT MEETS

talking with wife about going to zones or nationals

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

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