Time Trials

This meet is different from any others because you are only competing against your own time, and you can swim up to five times - including the same event five times if you want to. Rachel was determined she was going to get the divisional time in the 100 freestyle, and all she needed to cut was 2.6 seconds. She swam it the first time, and cut time, but not enough. She swam it a second time and came to within .15 seconds of the divisional time! She swam it the third time and just barely made it! She needed 122.09, and she swam it in 122.03. So now she has two divisional times! Yay! She tried for it one time in the 50 backstroke but added a little time, and we decided to call it a day. She was one tired little puppy once we got home, but a happy, tired puppy!

Dual meet at Jasper

Each swimmer could only swim 2 events at this one day meet, so we picked the 100 free and the 50 back. Rachel's timing was off on most of her flip turns, especially the one for the backstroke, but she still ended up cutting about .6 second. If she had gotten a good push off the wall, it probably would have been more like 1.5 seconds, but that's ok....it's still a cut! We have had numerous problems this year with her goggles coming loose when she dives in, and we thought we had worked out a fool-proof solution....goggles on first, then cap over the top. Well, we never took into consideration that perhaps her goggles are what helps hold the cap in place! On her 100 free, we saw the error in our ways. She completes the first 50 in decent time, then....her swimcap floats off! She had hair going everywhere! Needless to say, she didn't take off the 2 seconds she needed to make that divisional cut. We decided next time we will try to remember 1. swim cap - 2. goggles over cap - 3. another swim cap over goggles. We may get a system that works eventually...hopefully before divisionals!