Bulldog Aquatic Meet at EMU (Day 1)

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Bulldog Aquatic Meet at EMU (Day 1)

Posted by Kevin Doak on Saturday at: 11:07pm (May 3rd, 2008)
Today was the first session of the Bulldog Aquatic Meet at EMU, I decided to only swim the 200 back this afternoon. I'll swim the 100 back and 50 free starting at 1:45pm tomorrow. The 200 back went about as well as I can hope for considering where I am in my training. I went a 2:16.17. I believe I could have gone much faster. However, considering how tired I feel in addition to my increased training this past week, my time is satisfactory. I'm actually very pleased with my first 100m split at 1:02. This is exactly where I should be if I chose to swim this race at a larger competition. I would like to split it at a 1:01 and 1:04. This 200m backstroke is the longest distance race since I swam a 500 free in 1999. Since I'm a definite sprinter, this race was well outside my realm of expertise. I'm happy with my performance, although I know I could have done much better with a little rest (taking it easy a few days in advance). Instead I'm focused on much bigger meets so I've been training constantly till today. Special thanks to Dave and Derik who were there supporting me today. It was a pleasure watching my cousin Derik swim this afternoon, he did great. I plan on helping him with his start sometime soon. The video of my 200 back is encoding now and will be posted soon.