Swim meet + Watermelon Ride
Today we went on the Watermelon Ride, a 50, 100, 125, or 200 mile bike ride. I did the 50 mile version. There was a food stop at the 25 mile point, and food at the end. Lots of watermelons. I think it took us about 3 hours. And we got to cross a ferry at one point.
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I had a swim meet yesterday, in Mt. Hood. I swam the 200 free, 100 back, and 800 free. In the 200 free, I got a Sectional time of 2:21.16 and tied down to the hundredth of a second with the guy next to me. We got 11th out of 39 people. In the 100 backstroke, I got 1:18.67, which is a 3 second improvement from last time. We also had a 400 freestyle relay, with me, Adam, Nathanial, and then Andrew, in which we missed our event. But they let us swim in an empty lane in the next event. We got 4:34.19, and our splits were 1:05.15 for me, 1:09.09 for Adam, 1:13.03 for Nathanial, and 1:06.89 for Andrew. Andrew said his goggles opened up and filled with water when he dove in.
The 800 free was interesting - Adam, Andrew and I were in the same heat, and several things happened: my suit came untied at about the 300 point and was restricting me from pushing off my walls at full-power so I ended up getting 10:35.53 (which is seven seconds off my best time), Adam thought the other guy was me so he sprinted the whole way, and Andrew swam it fly-free by 50’s (Kate originally wanted him to just do a 400 fly and then get out, but then she gave him the choice to do it 200 fly 200 free, it got narrowed down to 100 fly 100 free, and eventually turned into 50 fly 50 free).
June 21st, 2005 at 1:43 pm
looks like you had fun. was the watermelon good??
June 21st, 2005 at 1:52 pm
one thing i didn’t sprint the WHOLE way just the majority of the last 400
June 21st, 2005 at 8:05 pm
Yeah, the watermelon was good! There was other fruit too, like oranges and bananas and grapes.