[Breeze]

Gold Invite - RESULTS

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Bailey

# 1 (d1/s1): G Open 200 Medley (2:24.70Y ) – she was disappointed with her fly leg at 30.48…but back was typical time, breast was about a second faster than normal and free was where it has been for a while now, which combined for a time of 2:24.63 a personal best by a whisker.
# 3 (d1/s1): G Open 50 Free (27.86Y ) - form looked better, but time was off by about a half a second 28.45
# 7 (d1/s1): G Open 500 Free (5:49.07Y ) – started our really good. Long arms, high elbows, really appeared to be on target with the stroke. Unfortunately, at about 300 yards fatigue really kicked in and her stroke fell apart. She was able to drop a significant amount of time though, swimming the race in 5:41.91
# 41 (d2/s3): G 13-14 200 Free (2:05.69Y ) - After a good first day I had high hopes here, only it wasn’t to be. Bailey only managed a 2:09.66, later on the way home she reminded me she dropped a bunch of time in this event at the last short course meet of the season when she was tapered. So expecting another drop this quickly was probably asking too much.
# 47 (d2/s3): G 13-14 100 Back (1:05.15Y ) – not a good swim 1:08.35
# 53 (d2/s3): G 13-14 200 Breast (2:51.55Y ) - started out looking ok, had spurts where she was really moving and closing on other swimmers, but there were to many periods of the race were she didn’t seem to move forward enough. 2:53.07
# 59 (d2/s3): G 13-14 100 Fly (1:01.25Y ) – This one irritated Bailey…though coach liked her deeper dig on the pull phase of the stroke – 1:04.76
# 95 (d3/s5): G 13-14 200 Fly (2:13.79Y ) – Added 5 seconds – 2:18.06 – in this one she ended up winning the event by over half a lap, so there was no one for her to actually race. However, I’m starting to think her 2 fly races will be strokes she won’t drop time in anymore unless she is tapered
# 101 (d3/s5): G 13-14 200 Back (2:17.77Y ) – typical add of around 5 seconds – 2:23.76
# 107 (d3/s5): G 13-14 100 Breast (1:22.00Y ) – The better stroke that we saw in phases in the 200 showed up enough in this one to get a personal best 1:21.27
# 113 (d3/s5): G 13-14 100 Free (1:00.50Y ) – Got a drop…but not sub60 - 1:00.33

All in all, not a great meet, but not a terrible one either. She feels once she is more familiar with the 500, and gets in shape to do more mid-distance swims that she can get in the low 5:30s. She’s still confident that she’ll go sub60 in the 100 free and fly…Got to get that backstroke figured out before state though.

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Bear

# 2 (d1/s1): B Open 200 Medley (2:10.22Y ) – fly leg was a good sub 28…back was weak at 35+, breast at 40 was good, and in free only managed a 28+…combined he added a couple seconds, 2:12.52…not great, but the fly and breast look much better and when he’s tapered that free will be much faster than a 28+
# 4 (d1/s1): B Open 50 Free (25.50Y ) - was really hoping for a drop here…mostly because this event isn’t typically on his list so he doesn’t get to swim it often, and it is directly related to who swims on the team relays at state/sectionals. Added a blink of an eye 25.53
# 8 (d1/s1): B Open 500 Free (4:59.71Y ) – was off his pace almost immediately. Coach told him right before this race that he probably wasn’t going to do well because he had been killing the distance group in practice leading into this meet. 5:16.26
# 42 (d2/s3): B 13-14 200 Free (1:52.15Y ) - similar to the 500...is exactly right…same basic problems for Bear here as he had the night before, just too worn out to maintain the effort needed to drop time 1:56.91
# 48 (d2/s3): B 13-14 100 Back (1:05.73Y ) - managed to drop time, probably from the excellent turns he was doing. 1:05.35. Coach told him he has to work on his shoulder flexibility in order to get better in this event, so he’s now on a stretching regimen.
# 60 (d2/s3): B 13-14 100 Fly (1:00.07Y ) – amazingly he dropped time but didn’t go sub60…1:00.06
# 96 (d3/s5): B 13-14 200 Fly (2:08.75Y ) – Like Bailey, he dominated this event, winning by 17 seconds. Unlike Bailey he did manage to improve on his personal best 2:08.56
# 102 (d3/s5): B 13-14 200 Back (2:18.94Y ) – couldn’t duplicate the drop in the 100…actually his long underwater turns probably hurt his time a bit, because it really puts him into oxygen deprivation quickly, especially in a 200 yard race – 2:23.25
# 108 (d3/s5): B 13-14 100 Breast (1:17.09Y ) – actually looked good in this one. Held the second part of the pull out a little too long which probably cost him a second or so…1:15.59
# 114 (d3/s5): B 13-14 100 Free (53.72Y ) – couldn’t quite pull another drop 54.73

The 500 was disappointing for him, but it could provide a serious motivator for him to work even harder at practice. Hopefully, the shoulder stretches will help with the back. The breast and fly look a lot better. Given he got several personal bests, and came pretty close on others during a meet that the coach admitted to overworking him coming in, it looks like he might be poised to do really well when he is tapered.


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Brett - because of his shoulder injury, Brett was supposed to scratch this meet, but he requested being allowed to do some sprints...

# 50 (d2/s3): B Open 100 Back (1:11.44Y ) - I told Brett to believe he could drop time even though he’s been out of the pool a bunch, and he agreed…and he did drop time in this one, 2 seconds to be exact 1:09.43. This drop also included a really bad third turn and an obvious fatigued stroke for the last 30 or so yards. He was very excited about this and feels he can drop another 2 or 3 seconds if he gets in shape.
# 106 (d3/s5): B Open 100 Breast (1:12.60Y ) – opened with a pace for a 1:07, but closed with a pace for a 1:30. Clearly fatigue was a problem. However, he just missed his personal best time by a hair 1:12.73
# 112 (d3/s5): B Open 100 Free (58.56Y ) – he really tried to kick through this one, but the kicking hurt his knees and he had to back off after the first 25. Couldn’t get close to his personal best here, but he wasn’t too far off given his status 1:00.26

Given his time out of the water, this was an excellent outcome for Brett. He’s excited about trying to get healthy and back in the pool fulltime, and honestly, he hasn’t always been that focused on getting well. Moreover, his shoulder didn’t hurt him after the meet, which is huge. Hopefully, he can get everything ironed out over the next couple of weeks, and then we’ll have to figure out how to work him back in the pool when the current swimmers are already fully ramped up.

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