Lifetime Best 50 Fly SCY!

I traveled 1.5 hours in the car for two reasons:

1. Tag a lifetime best in the 50y Fly
2. See and swim in the Harper Creek pool
3. I can't count

I fulfilled my weekend goals!  I woke up late, made up a little time on the road (mostly because GPS doesn't account for the time savings of driving on sidewalks).  Deck entered the 50 Fly, 50 Free, 50 Back and 100 back.  Overall, the pool, lockers and pool area were clean and the meet was flawlessly organized.  The staff should be proud of a well run meet.  Unfortunately the scoreboard had some technical difficulties but we still got accurate times once the results were printed out.

Once I was at the meet, I warmed up and tried to acclimate to the starting blocks but without much success.  The pool had fantastic blocks but some maintenance crew decided to paint the tops with a thick coat of white paint, therefore removing the "gripshun" (write that fake word down).  The addition of the paint made starts downright dangerous.  I begged the pool staff for a towel to lay over the block, the kindly obliged and I did a few decent starts.

My first event was the 50 Fly.  I was feeling ok but still sore from the last week of training.  I knew I wouldn't be as fast as last weekend but I thought I still had enough energy to swim a 22point low in the 50y fly.  I gave it a safe start off the blocks for fear of slipping and breaking a hip.  It was fast enough to get decent speed though.  I had a good 14 meters off the start underwater, a few strokes to the wall, a solid turn and 12 meters off the wall.  I didn't take a breath except for the turn, a feat I've never accomplished until today.  I touched in a 22.31, a lifetime best in the event!

I swam a total of 4 events today.  Since I only came to the meet for the 50 fly, I really didn't care what I went in the rest of my events.  I was feeling run down so it meant little to me what the clock said.  I won't give a play by play of each event, the swims don't deserve it.  My streamline broke apart on my 50 free, hense the poor time in that event.  The rest of my swims were solid but definitely nothing special.  

50 Fly SCY: 22.31 (Lifetime best by 0.18 seconds!) 
50 Free SCY: 21.35
50 Back SCY: 22.97 
100 Back SCY: 50.49

It was great to talk to everyone at the meet.  I love making new friends and the Michigan Masters meets just feel like coming home.  The people are great and everybody supports each other!  With 4 lifetime best times in 2 weeks, I'm in the best shape of my life.  This is just awesome.