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This was the last day of the meet. I had three events: the last leg of 400 freestyle relay, the 200 fly and 100 free.

We got 3:49.40 in the relay, which is one second off a Sectional time. My split was 53.1.

In the 200 fly I got 2:15.17. I improved 2½ seconds, and I got 6th place. I’m now five seconds from a Zone time.
Kate said my splits were “phenomenal”, especially my third 50.

I didn’t do so well in the 100 free; I got 54.04. At least I already got my Sectional time last night in the time trial.

In the 200 fly in finals I got 2:12.87, 2.3 seconds faster than I swam in prelims! I got 6th place. Now I’m only two and a half seconds off a Zone time. I’ll get it at Sectionals.

So now I have a 6th (200 fly), 7th (50 free), 7th (100 fly), 7th (200 free), 10th (200 IM) and 16th (100 free). Our team got 4th out of 52 teams.

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TEAM STANDINGS:
1st Thunderbolts
2nd Lake Oswego Swim Club
3rd Bend
4th Bearcats
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Here’s a picture of me on the blocks:

EDIT: Kyle set a new state record wearing my cap!

I only had one event today, the 200 free. But I also time trialed the 100 free even though I haven’t swam it yet, just in case I don’t get my Sectional time.

In the 200 free I got 1:56.31 — a one second improvement, and 5th place.

In my 100 free time trial I got 53.73. A Sectional time is 53.89, so I got what I wanted.

When I swam the 200 free in the finals, I got 1:56.84. I was half a second off my prelims time, but I got 7th place.

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TEAM STANDINGS:
1st Thunderbolts
2nd Lake Oswego Swim Club
3rd Bend
4th Bearcats
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Today I swam the 200 IM, 50 free, 100 fly and the fly leg of our 400 medley relay.

PRELIMS

In the 200 IM my time was 2:13.28. I dropped two seconds, and I got 10th place.

In the 50 free I got 24.76, and my old time was 24.71; I lost control of my dive. But, I still got 8th, so I made it in to Finals and got another chance to swim it.

In the 100 fly I got 59.36, which is a two second improvement. And I got 5th place.

We won our heat in the 400 medley relay, and our time was 4:17. We got a Sectional time by four seconds. My fly split was 59.4.

FINALS

I didn’t mess up my dive this time in the 50 free — I got 24.32, and 7th place. I’m only three tenths of a second off a Zone time!

In the 100 fly, I got 59.76. I added .40 second because I was tired. I got 7th place.

This has been a long day.

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Team standing: 1st (thanks to our girls’ Junior Nationals relay team)

My only event today was the 800 free relay, with Nathanial, Adam, Eric and me (in that order). My split was 1:54.9, a best time by about two seconds. I also tied Tori and Nathan Losch’s splits. I think I started losing my vision on the last 50 (so my last flipturn was pretty bad), and I couldn’t kick at all. I really ran out of oxygen. In Kate’s view, all the better.
We weren’t expecting to do very well, but we got 7th!

Tomorrow is day one of four of the short course OSI State Championships. I’ll be posting how I do in my events.

This is why you shouldn’t try to hack Mac OS X… You get repelled with Bad Poetry!

Software developers shouldn’t even think about writing poetry, especially right after working on a security patch in an OS…

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So now I’ll be hosting The Byte Factory’s site, the Bearcat site, and eventually my dad’s site on that server.

I’m looking for a free or really cheap web host for one of my sites. Also, I’d like it if they let you point several domains to different directories. I was going to use Astahost, but then I found out they require you to actively post on their forums! Not good. So, if anyone knows of a good one, please let me know.

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Sorry for the lack of posts lately; I’ve been working on cleaning up the Bearcat site.