2011 Milan Masters Meet Results

I was pretty run down during this meet.  We had a very hard workout on Saturday and I worked outside most of the rest of the day.  Therefore I was ill prepared to swim fast at Milan this morning.  My coach Mark Hill recommended that I should not rest up for a meet like this. He recommended that I use it to build experience racing but not to get emotionally attached to my swims or the resulting times.  I value his expertise and it worked out great.  If I had rested for the meet and swum the times I did, I would be slightly disapointed.  However, since I'm run down, I'm actually impressed with my times for being so exhausted!

50 Fly SCY: 22.49 (tied my lifetime best)
50 Free SCY: 21.40 (0.04 seconds off my Mesa, AZ time from nationals)
50 Back SCY: 23.31 (2 tenths faster than Mesa, AZ time)
100 Back SCY: 50.53 (1.4 seconds faster than Mesa, AZ time)

Since I ONLY train backstroke, I'm most impressed with my 100 back time!  After swimming 3 other events, I managed to swim one of the fastest times in my life while unshaved, untapered and tired as heck.  Even more startling was that I had energy left at the end of that race!!!!  That has NEVER happened to me before!  I'm always DEAD on the last 25 yards and just barely touch the wall at the end.  This time I had too much energy at the end!  This is a very good sign for my training.  We have been working on keeping consistent rates while swimming our races and I did just that.

I can be taught!

Overall, my times were as good, or better than Mesa Nationals, but without being shaved and tapered!  I'm run down now and I'm faster than I was shaved, tapered and fully prepared to race.  That's awesome!

Special thanks to Milan High School, they once again did a great job running the meet and the fantastic food at the end!