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I feel so releved to have it all over with! It makes me excited to start training again! I'm out to lunch with my family and feeling great! I know what I have to work on and I have NO regrets, I'm proud of my performance in my first Olympic Trials!

I set a very difficult goal and achieved it! I'm proud of myself and thankful for all my supporters.

I swam the 2nd fastest 100 backstroke race of my life. I'm proud of that. Its true that I felt like I had a faster swim in me, but I have no regrets. I swam a good race. I took it out in a 27.28, the second fastest 50 split of my life behind my best of 27.26. I brought it home in 30.45, I know I could have done better here. I prepared to the best of my ability.

The experience was just as nerve racking and exciting as I thought it would be. It was a journey I will always remember.

57.73

The 100 back will start right at 1:43pm eastern time. My next post will be my results

Hayley McGregory broke the world record in the 100 back, and less than 2 minutes later in the next heat, Natalie Coughlin won back her world record with a 59.03! Very exciting prelims so far. I swim in about an hour.

The meet just started. I feel ready, my family just showed up, I had a good warmup, my goggles feel good, my suit is ready, and I'm ready to swim

I would be ready to watch on www.nbcolympics.com earlier than that but it should be right around 1:43pm eastern time

You can watch times live on www.omegatiming.com if you can't watch video!

I had a good nights rest and I'm up on time. I was just reflecting on all the things I've done correctly to get to this point. I've prepared the best I can and I haven't let anything get in the way. There's not a single thing I can think of that makes me not ready to swim my best today. The only variable left is that I need to give 100%. I'm ready to go.

Today I will fulfill my dream.

It was January 11th 2006 while I was attending Eric Namesnik's memorial service that I decided it was my dream to swim in the Olympic Trials. I was listening to Jon Urbanchek speak about Eric's amazing swimming career and work ethic when a quote he mentioned stuck in my head:

"A dream is a dream until you do something about it."

I just watched the 2nd world record of the night! Katie Hoff just broke her own world record, it was incredible, she was so surprised! I'm still watching the meet, this is SO EXCITING!