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After further review our 200 Medley relay also broke the Masters World Record by 0.10 seconds! That makes two masters world records in one day!

The team was:

Kevin Doak
Patrick Saucedo
Camron Mull
Alec Mull

Plenty of other great news for today but the biggest is MY FIRST WORLD RECORD!

I lead off the 200 Medley Relay with a 50 backstroke... I knew I was feeling good and the relay excitement just fueled the fire! I had a perfect start and spun to the other end to touch in 26.64 seconds! I broke the world record set in 1994 by .04 seconds!

I'm so excited to have had a great swim and a lifetime best time in a speedo brief suit. I bested my previous mark of 26.75 I achieved at the same meet as my 57.00 last March when I was wearing a full body Speedo LZR tech suit!

I had a GREAT DAY!

First time ever... I swam a 200 freestyle as part of a 800 freestyle relay!

Its difficult to describe how much I didn't want to swim this event but I buckled under the peer pressure of Alec Mull and agreed. I warned the team how poorly I would swim but they wanted to give it a shot anyway. We were going after the National Record of 8:13.xx. The relay was comprised of:

Camron Mull
Kevin Doak
Patrick Saucedo
Alec Mull

I had a few mediocre swims today. I wish I had better news to report:

100 Backstroke (1st Place)
50 meter split 27.9
100 meter time 59.05

100 Freestyle: (3rd Place) Lifetime Best Time
50 meter split 25.9

There are a ton of Tech Suits here! I would estimate the number at 90% of all racers are wearing a full body suit. The another 9% are wearing leg skins or an older full body suit. I've only seen one other guy with a brief on. They're even selling more tech suits here at the meet! I'm amazed there is still a market for them. I've overheard swimmers talking about how they know they will be banned but they want to milk it for everything its worth until they're illegal. I have a feeling there are going to be a lot less records broken next year!

I got to sleep in this morning and I decided to take the brief 1/2 mile walk to the pool instead of driving. Its a beautiful morning here in Indy and I got to check out the "riverwalk" for the first time. I was really impressed! Its quite a neat piece of engineering. I hope I can take a longer walk when I have more time to burn. I've arrived at the pool, My 50 Fly begins at an estimated 10:26am

A hectic work day put me behind schedule for my trip to Indy. I'm back at EMU for my meet warmup swim this afternoon and will leave straight from practice.

I'm really excited to compete! I like the idea of swimming at IUPUI without the typical pressure of being around the pro swimmers. I have a feeling the meet will be pretty laid back but will last all day, every day.

Looking at the heat sheets which were released a few days ago, there is going to be some great competition.

I had my last practice in Michigan before leaving for IUPUI and the 2009 USMS Long Course National Championships! I did about 2,500 meters with some variable sprints and starts. Everything feels good and I'm ready to go fast! I'll leave as soon as possible tomorrow and hope to practice at IUPUI Natatorium before the meet starts on Thursday morning.

I'm breaking out some new goggles and a new race suit for the meet, obviously just a Speedo Brief... representing pure competition!

I've done my best lately to eat enough and get adequate sleep leading up to my big taper meet this year. Its always a battle balancing life, relationships and friendships along with a full time work schedule with swimming every day. Thus far I've done a great job making everything happen and making few sacrifices on each portion of my life. Although something must always suffer. I've noticed its time with friends which seems to go by the wayside when I have such a deep commitment to work and training.

The preliminary results of the Masters Swimming National Top 10 List has been published:

I think this year (so far) is among my best finishes, I rank in the top 10 in the nation in each event I've swam short course yards this year:

(5th Nationally) 50 Free: 21.21
(6th Nationally) 100 Free: 46.42
(1st Nationally) 50 Backstroke: 22.78
(1st Nationally) 100 Backstroke: 49.84
(5th Nationally) 200 Backstroke: 1:55.05
(2nd Nationally) 50 Fly: 22.49
(5th Nationally) 100 Fly: 50.66