Ande's Swimming Blog

Sat Nov 9 & Sun Nov 10 MEET RESULTS SCM WOODLANDS TX

Got a late start on Sat left my home around 9:15
encountered some serious traffic on I-10 at Hwy 99
all traffic force to 1 lane then off the highway on to the access road,
It was backed up, meet didn't start till noon
when I finally got to the pool, the 50 bk started I was in ht 5 and ht 2 was in the water
I put on my racing suit and raced the 50 bk with no warm up
had no time to get familiar with the starting blocks or the turn

Sat, Nov 10

2 50 back
went 29.12
was 27.7 last year
first thing I noticed were the hand grips were really low
had a terrible turn, flipped too soon and didn't get a good push off

200 back entered it but skipped it, considered doing a split request

50 fly
27.0 pretty good
entered no time because I had the 200 IM next and wanted to get as much rest as possible

200 IM next
think I was 2:19.3
it was right after the 50 fl,
need to race it fresh to pop my best time
30.0
37.5 way too slow
40.0
31.6

didn't do any relays

Sun Nov 11
Warm up 8:00 AM; Meet Start 9:00 AM

17 50 free
went 25.38
OK swim didn't have a good turn

19 50 breast
went 33.0
felt like I was fighting myself and timing was way off

hit a good stretch of rest during the
200 free, 400 women/men medley relay, 200 mixed free relay, the Break & 200 breast

100 IM
went 1:01.68
27.68 34.00
did 10 SDKs on BK
Br felt terrible and too rushed
died pretty bad but I went for it

30 800 free
9:35.18
33.05 35.13 68.18
35.16 36.22 71.38 2:19.56
36.04 36.42 72.46 3:32.02
36.72 36.74 73.46 4:45.48 2:25.92
37.13 36.95 74.08 5:59.56
36.84 36.62 73.46 7:13.02 2:27.54
37.05 36.24 73.29 8:26.31
36.54 32.30 68.87 9:35.18 2:22.16 4:49.70

haven't done much dist work
cruised it the sprinted the last 50


Next Meets:
Might do another one in late Nov / early Dec, haven't decided yet.

might enter the 2013 SPMA SCM Champs
the pool is at 5600 Harbor Street Commerce, CA 90040 the pics of the facilities look pretty nice