I needed that!
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11I needed that!
Posted by Kevin Doak on Thursday at: 1:11am (March 11th, 2010)
For the last week now I've been training back at EMU. Its revolutionized my work ethic and given me some much needed confidence in my swimming. Today I was in the pool at the same time as a few EMU swimmers who have just finished up their big conference meet. A few of them put on some tech suits from last season and jumped in for some time trials long course meters. I had swam about 1,200 meters and was warmed up just as I received a challenge from one of the swimmers to race a 50 meter fly.
I quickly weighed out the situation. (For privacy I won't use his name) He was wearing a tech suit, recently tapered and at the end of his 4 years of swimming having just achieved lifetime best times in the Breaststroke... Yet, he was no butterflier.
I was warmed up, a little tired, feeling slightly overweight wearing a drag suit and didn't have a starting block like he did. I'm not too shabby at the butterfly though.
I jumped out of the pool and backed up from the edge. If he gets a block, I get to run a few steps!
They tell me it was over after the underwaters. I popped up ahead and maintained my lead, perhaps even pulled away a bit. Two hand times had me at 26.8! Really not too bad for me considering I was a 25.4 at Long Course Nationals in August. I shook my competitors hand and warmed it down a 200 with a smile on my face.
Minutes later I thought to myself... "I can do better than that". I stripped off the drag suit and got up on the starting block with two hand timers using a gun start method. I had some good underwater kicks and a decent stroke. I was sucking down water at times but overall not a bad race! I touched and heard "25.6"! The second timer had a 25.7, but what does he know?! He obviously took 0.10 seconds too long to hit the stopwatch.
Overall, I'm so very glad I had such a reinforcing impromptu time trial going into the Milford meet this weekend. I was beginning to doubt my training a bit.
0.20 slower than my Nationals time really isn't too bad :)
I quickly weighed out the situation. (For privacy I won't use his name) He was wearing a tech suit, recently tapered and at the end of his 4 years of swimming having just achieved lifetime best times in the Breaststroke... Yet, he was no butterflier.
I was warmed up, a little tired, feeling slightly overweight wearing a drag suit and didn't have a starting block like he did. I'm not too shabby at the butterfly though.
I jumped out of the pool and backed up from the edge. If he gets a block, I get to run a few steps!
They tell me it was over after the underwaters. I popped up ahead and maintained my lead, perhaps even pulled away a bit. Two hand times had me at 26.8! Really not too bad for me considering I was a 25.4 at Long Course Nationals in August. I shook my competitors hand and warmed it down a 200 with a smile on my face.
Minutes later I thought to myself... "I can do better than that". I stripped off the drag suit and got up on the starting block with two hand timers using a gun start method. I had some good underwater kicks and a decent stroke. I was sucking down water at times but overall not a bad race! I touched and heard "25.6"! The second timer had a 25.7, but what does he know?! He obviously took 0.10 seconds too long to hit the stopwatch.
Overall, I'm so very glad I had such a reinforcing impromptu time trial going into the Milford meet this weekend. I was beginning to doubt my training a bit.
0.20 slower than my Nationals time really isn't too bad :)