Swimmin'

The swim season has been in full swing for several weeks and our new Titans coach Kelly Kaye has been drilling us into fitness.

I raced the UBS Masters meet on Sunday and had a chance to see where my fitness is. While I fell short of a few pre-meet targets, I am swimming faster at this point of the season than a year ago. And I'm super motivated and looking forward to our home club meet in December and then the Love to Swim meet in Vancouver in early February.

At yesterday's meet, I realised that I need to work on my flipturns a bit more. They are far better than when I learned how to do them last season but there's a lot of room for improvement. I missed a swath of them while racing which I attribute to a lack of familiarity with the contours of the pool. I kept turning early!

400m
41.22
1:27.95
2:17.06
3:07.41
3:59.96
4:51.49
5:45.07
6:34.12

Mixed 4 x 50 Free
35.32

100m
38.63
1:20.17 (41.54)

50m
33.48

Mixed 4 x 50 Medley
(I swam 50 free)
33.65

200m
39.51
1:26.02
2:15.99

3:05.39

*Comment from my coach:

"In practice you should be aiming at going 44 for best avg 50 s 107 for 75s and 125-127 for 100 s , when you can do this you will see a big drop in times"