Bad Finish to a Great Meet

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Bad Finish to a Great Meet

Posted by Kevin Doak on Sunday at: 7:00pm (July 3rd, 2011)
Bad Finish to a Great Meet

I had a horrible 50 Free and touched in a 24.4.  Everything about that race felt weird, I wasn't tired, just confused about the new stroke, didn't trust my freestyle.  I need more practice.  I took 10th place overall.

My 50 Back was even worse.  I had a bad start, decent underwaters but NAILED the lane line at the 25 meter mark, enough to put a big scrape down my back and arm as well as slice my finger open.  I tried to recover and churn it over to finish the race, from the video footage, I actually gained on the leader and touched in a 27.33.  It was actually a good time considering I basically came to a dead stop at one point in the race.  I took 5th place overall.

Otherwise it was a great meet, 4 Finals swims and a National cut.  I am 0.01 seconds away from my 100 Back Olympic Trial cut!

Training Quote
"Well, you can either blame your luck and your situation or accept it, learn from it and do better next time" - Coach Mike Bottom
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