Sectionals, Day 1
This is the first day of Sectionals, and it’s really exciting to be at this pool again. There are 143 teams here, from 7 different states: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.
My two events for today were the 50 free and 200 IM.
50 Free: I didn’t do very well in this event. I got 24.66, 32 hundredths of a second (32 jiffies!) off my time from State two weeks ago. I was also 67 hundredths off a Zone time.
I got 23rd place out of 30.
200 IM: I got 2:12.15. I improved one second. I was still a little tired from my 50, since I had to get ready for the 200 IM as soon as I was done warming down. But John said it was really good.
I got 20th out of 30 people.
I also time trialed the 50 free to try and get the Zone time. I got 24.36; not a Zone time, but John said it was a “perfect race”. I guess I’m more of a mid-distance swimmer.
My mom filmed my first two events. (If they don’t work, you need to download Quicktime 7.
50 Free
200 IM
March 17th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Awesome. Good job. Heh, your cam needs one of those girators to keep it steady - but I think she was exited watchin you which is why there was some shaking of the cam!! Can’t wait to see the photos.
March 18th, 2006 at 7:52 am
Yeah, I found out it was steadier if I sat down and could brace my elbows a little. The zoom was so powerful on this camera which I was using for the first time– and you can see on the 200 IM film, how far away we were spectating from! Eamon, you look FAST! Watching those clips brings all the excitement back! And I didn’t notice before, that you have a very specific routine, when you get up on the block. It’s exactly the same every time, including the “goggle-press” thing.
March 19th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
EAMON YOU ARE SO AMAZING!!!!!!You rock!!!I love watching you swim because your so good at it!!!!You are super fast!!!!You did good!!You just kind of stopped and looked up on the IM during the back to breast turn….i think if you work on that you will have everything looking great. I think i have seen you stop kind of before. But ya awsome job though! Your 50 free was super fast. Dont give yourself a hard time about it. You should be proud. There are lots of peopple that cant swim a freakin fast 24 (like me) lol. So ya be proud you did well. I cant wait to see you next season at practice! Just work hard and believe in yourself. Those are the two most important things of swimming. Just becuase you didnt do to well in something dont get mad at yourself because then you would do even worse. PLease just when you feel stressed just sit by yourself with no one to bother you and listen to music or something nad just relax. and if you need to talk im here. I hope my tips are usefull. Geeze i wrote a long coment. I dont think they are suppose to be this long. Ok im done now!!!LOL. NEVER GIVE UP!!!im here if you need to talk!dont be shy!!!I’ll talk about anything!!!Always believe
Your Friend
-marie
P.S. ok NOW im done!!!