Saturday, July 25, 2009

I went swimming and I got me some medals


I started off the 2009 SPMA LCM Regionals meet with a second place in the women's 25-29 age group. Results can be found here and video can be seen here. I was in heat 11 lane 4 wearing a bright orange cap. I've been doing too much open water distance swimming as I defiantly took awhile to get moving. I held back way too much from the get go. Ah well, I just need to get experience again.

I won my age group in the 100 breast and 100 free as well. My stroke stayed consistent throughout the race in the breaststroke, however due to lack of actually training the stroke my speed was pretty off. I will have to try again after I start trying to work more breaststroke into my workouts. My gauge though is always the 100 free. I will never forget how to swim that race. I stayed strong over the entire 100 and wasn't much off the time I did two years ago. I will greatly improve when the shoulder gets more recovered for sure.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Merritt, what did you have done to your shoulder, cause I just had mine scoped last week. I have been a follower of yours for some time, I found Tony Austin SCAQ blog, and his blog was a link of yours. Now I blog in NorCAL about swimming. You had a good meet, congrats. Good meet.