Bend Meet + Cove Palisades
The last meet of the season was this weekend, in Bend. I was staying with Adam and his dad in a tent about 30 seconds from the pool.
The car we took to get there was a little Lumina towing the boat with all our luggage. When we were going over the Santiam pass, we started hearing unhealthy noises coming from the engine. Because we were listening to loud music, and because the temperature gauge is the one that nobody looks at, we didn’t realize what was happening. Then, we looked back, and could barely see the boat through all the smoke.
We stopped for a few minutes, let the engine cool down, and then resumed. Fortunately, we (barely) made it to the pool without anymore problems.
There are two pools at Bend: an indoor 25 meter pool and an outdoor 50 meter pool. The little kids were swimming in the outdoor pool (but only using half of it), and we were swimming in the indoor pool.
I swam the 100 free, 200 back, 100 breast, 50 free, 100 fly, and 200 free, and I won the 100 free, 50 free and 100 fly.
On Saturday we went boating at Cove Palisades. The place looks like the Grand Canyon filled with water.
I published photos of the meet and the lake to Flickr and to a Photocast.
Here are a few of them.
August 15th, 2006 at 6:25 am
I didn’t realize that the Bend meet was a 25 meter meet. You’d think with there cool new 50 meter outdoor pool that they would want to use the whole thing.
August 15th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Yeah… But we got to use the other half of the 50 meter pool to warmup in (which was better than the indoor pool).
August 15th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
yea the indoor one was pretty bad. the only thing about the outdoor one is that its cold when your wet. the trip to the lake on saturday made up for everything though!