As you may know, I am on the Central High School Swim Team. Our season started back in late September and every 10 days or so we have a swim meet. I’ve been swimming two events all year for my individuals and two relays as well. My individual events are the 100 yard. Breaststroke and the 200 yard. IM. (For those who don’t know, IM stands for individual medley which means I swim 50 yards of every stroke) My relays consist of the 200 medley relay (of which I swim the butterfly leg) and the 400 or 200 freestyle relay.
Two days ago marked the start of City Championships. All of the teams come together for a humungo meet. The preliminary races were on Saturday. The top 16 of all of the swimmers in each event made it to City finals the next day. I ended up making it to the finals in both of my individuals! For my Breaststroke event I ended up placing 11th in the top 16 and in my IM I placed 16th, barely squeezing in there by .3 seconds. Wheeww!
The next day brought some excitement for sure! Finals were held at the Natatorium (The LSU swimming pool). My 200 medley relay was first, bringing with it, chaos! Luckily, it was all soon resolved and the judges accepted our time which happened to be a school record! Also, a personal record for myself. I was swimming the butterfly leg of the relay and swam 50 yards (which is across the pool and back) in 29.7 seconds!
Not quite a Michael Phelps race, but hey, I’m getting there.
Race #2 for me was my IM, which I ended up dropping 2 more seconds, putting my time at 2 minutes and 25 seconds; another personal record. =) My last relay was my third race which was the 200 freestyle relay. I swam 50 yards in 26.2 seconds. This was quite an improvement from last years time which was 27.7 seconds. Finally we come to my last race: 100 yard Breaststroke. This was my most exciting race, seeing as how I was stuck at a 1:15 all season (4 meets in a row) until Saturday (prelims) when I dropped it down to a 1:11 which was approximately 1 second away from the state qualifying time. At finals I dropped some more time, making my record a 1:10.13; this time just happened to be the exact time of the state cut! Talk about a stroke of faith! I couldn’t have made that time without God’s strength! I am so excited!
After the meet, the team drove a couple blocks down to Walk Ons where we visited and ate to our stomachs content. *sigh* what a wonderful day that the Lord has made. =)
P.S. – just in case I haven’t told you… I LOVE MY TEAM-MATES! theyprettymuchrock.
