Swim
Comments: welllll..... some whole swim team full of kids was there. LOTS of bikinis today, maybe I should get one too. NO tummy issues today. The yellow beach flags were out today. I thought they looked orange. anyhoo... I swallowed way more water than ST A's. It was ugly. I found a green cap and used it as a sighting thing. But then I eventually passed the green cap. When I hit the turnaround buoy, I was all alone, so did the windmill turn thingie and it was pretty cool. The ride back in was great, I was more relaxed this time, probably because I can't see the waves coming at my face. I did better this lap, the only bad thing was I couldn't see the dang buoy and didn't know if I was on course or not, since I could see a kayak I thought I was okay, but can't hear if he's yelling at me, so... I hate it when it gets this way, you can't see, can't hear, what a bitch. But that's my life. Deal with it. anyhoo, made the buoy, sprinted for it, swam in till my fingers touched the bottom, stood up and got knocked over by a wave. So graceful. Did some goofy skips out of the water, and got handed a card that said 70, which I thought was funny because I was marked 70. What would you do differently?: relax. Sight better. Not breathe every stroke and learn to bilateral breathe. Post race
Warm down: walk around looking for kids. What limited your ability to perform faster: I'm slow. waves. Drinking saltwater. Event comments: pretty good race, small. Benefits the city's junior lifeguard program. It's on Clearwater beach which is a great nice beach to spend the day afterwards, but we had other stuff to do. **update:*** this time sucked. The age groups were realy skewered- the largest was 15-19 with the swim teams and times were 20 min to 29 min for that AG. Some fast young'uns there. I was good enough to place second if I was aged up and fourth if I was a couple years younger. I need to get used to the OW swimmin' thing. Last updated: 2006-05-04 12:00 AM
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Sunny
Overall Rank = 70/99
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 7/8
nothin', arrived, registered. "oh, that's the boys line and this is the girls' line. Me and another dude quickly and discreetly switched places. oop!