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2013 Gold Esperanto Invite - RESULTS
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Brett
200 Medley : 2:43.52 - just started testing his bad shoulder with some limited two arm fly. This will be the only fly he swims during the meet
RESULT: opened with a 40.23 fly leg…obviously not great, but given he hasn’t been practicing it and given his problems with the stroke as recently as the Summer, this is a great time. This improvement led to a personal best 2:40.70.
50 Free : 31:07 – Wants to get sub 31…
RESULT: Terrible dive ended chances of sub-31…but result was pretty much the same as personal best, so I think he’ll get sub 31 next time…31.25
200 Free : 2:21.21 – Don’t think he can drop time in this one again…not yet.
RESULT: I was wrong…dropped half a second…honestly, his kick was sloppy (feet bumping into each other), and he didn’t do any underwater work coming off the walls, he can drop more time in this – 2:20.68
100 Back : 1:18.67 – Arm rotation count is the key…
RESULT: Another terrible start, deep without good form on underwater streamline, but didn’t matter, swam a personal best by almost 1.5 seconds – 1:17.21
100 Breast : 1:20.44 – Coming off a bad time at the last meet in this one.
RESULT: This was an interesting one, Brett, who currently weighs about 85 lbs. was next to a kid that was easily 6’2” and 240…The huge kid had dynamic pullouts, but Brett was much faster in the middle of the pool. In long course this is no contest, Brett kills him. Here, every time Brett caught up, they’d get to the wall, and he’d be over a body length back. Brett has to improve the dolphin kick portion of the pull-out. He did get a personal best 1:20.01.
100 Free : 1:06.24 – He thinks that he can improve here based on some interval times he’s hit in practice
RESULT: Still sloppy kicks and poor effort coming off walls, but did drop 1.41 seconds…1:04.83
200 Back : 2:38.71 – See 100 Back
RESULT: So Brett was doing great for the first 145…but right before the turn for the 150 he starting looking back over his head to the wall…what he was actually doing was looking to see if anyone was finished. He had managed to lose count of his laps and wasn’t sure if he was finished. This cost him some time, then he did it again at the 200 point…in fact, he did it so much he turned to his belly to flip thinking he had another 50 to go, then figured out he didn’t and finished the heat on his stomach – which is completely illegal and he should have been DQed, but somehow all 800 or so people in the stands saw it, but the 4 officials on deck missed it. Personal Best (sort of) 2:37.54 (also Coach made him re-swim it for time at practice Monday and he got a 2:36 low…)
200 Breast : 2:51.60 – Big drop in the last meet, not sure he can improve on that, especially late in the weekend
RESULT: Looked really strong in this one. Blew away the field in his heat, and in fact, beat 2 kids from the faster heat. Posted a big time improvement at 2:45.48
1650 Free : NT – He’s in the mile, and honestly I think he’s a reserved excited. After his good swim in the 1000 last meet, he immediately asked his coach to do this one …he could do pretty well.
RESULT: Did extremely well. Coach was hoping for under 1:20 splits and thought something in the 1:15s, where he kept his 1000 last month would be awesome…
1:11.99
1:18.54
1:17.13
1:18.08
1:15.31
1:16.00
1:16.19
1:15.49
1:15.07
1:15.87
1:15.53
1:15.86
1:15.54
1:15.88
1:15.14
1:14.83
Total 20:40.00
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