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I had a pretty good week end. I had two swim meets to go to, and since i hadnt swam in a school one yet, i went to that one istead of the Poseidon one at Nova (I couldve gone to one day of it, but opted not to). The school meet was great. I swam freestyle in the medley relay and had a 26.8. My previous personal best was a 27.65, but the 26 was with a relay start, which is faster. In the individual 50 free, i swam a 27.35, which i was really glad to get because my last personal best was from 8th grade. Next was the 100 yard freestyle, at my last meet, Id swam it in 1.02.92, which had been a personal best. After touching the wall, i felt like id done ok, maybe a new best time. When i got out of the water, i heard my friend say, "wow, you took off two seconds!" He was almost right, Id swam it in 1.01.5, so i took off one and 1/2 seconds. I swam the 400 free relay too, i had the fastest split in my relay team(1.01) and i when i looked at the other TES team's splits (the 1st place one), my split was faster than 2 of their swimmers'. I placed second in all of my events and made state qualifying times too. The girls team won and the boys beat one of the two teams they were against. My past goal had been to break 1.03 in the 100 free and since ive done that, now i think i could break one minute (For the non swimmers, a 100 is 4 laps).
My grandmother also came to watch me swim and that was really cool because she had never been to one of my meets since weve usually lived at least 8 hours away from eachother (she lives in maryland and is now only 2-3 hours away, but now were further from my other grandma). She definately picked a good meet to come to, i just hope i can keep improving throughout the school season and with Poseidon.
I went to food not bombs today, Bj came with me. We finished way before usual. On most days, we finish right before 4 and then head to the park, but today we finished before 3, it was amazing. So then we just hung out and talked and stuff til 4. The food wasnt as good today, maybe that was why we were fast. We didnt get a whole lot of fresh fruits and vegeatables, just alot of prepackaged lettice (did i spell that wrong?) and apples with a few other things.
This is taylors last night before going back to college, which makes me sad. I dont think he has another break until spring break, which luckily is the same as mine (how rare is that?).
I had a pretty good week end. I had two swim meets to go to, and since i hadnt swam in a school one yet, i went to that one istead of the Poseidon one at Nova (I couldve gone to one day of it, but opted not to). The school meet was great. I swam freestyle in the medley relay and had a 26.8. My previous personal best was a 27.65, but the 26 was with a relay start, which is faster. In the individual 50 free, i swam a 27.35, which i was really glad to get because my last personal best was from 8th grade. Next was the 100 yard freestyle, at my last meet, Id swam it in 1.02.92, which had been a personal best. After touching the wall, i felt like id done ok, maybe a new best time. When i got out of the water, i heard my friend say, "wow, you took off two seconds!" He was almost right, Id swam it in 1.01.5, so i took off one and 1/2 seconds. I swam the 400 free relay too, i had the fastest split in my relay team(1.01) and i when i looked at the other TES team's splits (the 1st place one), my split was faster than 2 of their swimmers'. I placed second in all of my events and made state qualifying times too. The girls team won and the boys beat one of the two teams they were against. My past goal had been to break 1.03 in the 100 free and since ive done that, now i think i could break one minute (For the non swimmers, a 100 is 4 laps).
My grandmother also came to watch me swim and that was really cool because she had never been to one of my meets since weve usually lived at least 8 hours away from eachother (she lives in maryland and is now only 2-3 hours away, but now were further from my other grandma). She definately picked a good meet to come to, i just hope i can keep improving throughout the school season and with Poseidon.
I went to food not bombs today, Bj came with me. We finished way before usual. On most days, we finish right before 4 and then head to the park, but today we finished before 3, it was amazing. So then we just hung out and talked and stuff til 4. The food wasnt as good today, maybe that was why we were fast. We didnt get a whole lot of fresh fruits and vegeatables, just alot of prepackaged lettice (did i spell that wrong?) and apples with a few other things.
This is taylors last night before going back to college, which makes me sad. I dont think he has another break until spring break, which luckily is the same as mine (how rare is that?).