The meet director from the meet this past weekend emailed out the results yesterday. Here's what I got:
50 back: 30.89 (entered as 31.71, so I dropped .82 seconds, less than I thought)
50 fly: 28.16 (entered as 29.30, so I dropped 1.14 seconds)
100 IM: 1:07.00 (entered as 1:10.21, so I dropped 3.21 seconds)
On the 50 fly, if I hadn't flubbed the turn and finish, I probably would have been around a mid 27. 50 back felt pretty good, so I'm just not getting the times I want, for some reason. 100 IM splits were 29.81 and 37.19. The first split is quite good for where I'm at right now, while the second split is terrible, just terrible.
Anyways, for those three swims, here are the Nats cuts for the 25-29 age group, since I age up three weeks before the meet...grr...:
50 back: 28.22. That means I have to drop 2.7 seconds to make the cut. It MIGHT be possible, but I'm not promising anything. If I wasn't aging up, I would only have to drop 1.9 seconds, which seems more achievable. Sigh.
50 fly: 26.78. I've gotta drop 1.4 seconds. Pretty confident I can make this one, especially as I ramp up my fly time and yardage at practice over the next three months. Again, if I wasn't aging up, I'd only have to drop 1.1 seconds.
100 IM: 1:00.77. Not sure about this one, since I have to drop 6.2 seconds. Completely guessing here, I think I might be able to drop another 2 seconds or so from my current time in the IM just by not having a meltdown in the second half like I did last weekend. If I wasn't aging up, I'd only have to drop 4.1 seconds. That cut would be fairly achievable, I think.
My team hosts a meet next weekend. Unlike this past meet, we can swim up to five individual events, plus two relays. I'm going to swim the 50 fly for sure, as well as the 100 IM in an attempt to vindicate last weekend's terrible performance in that race. Besides that, no clue what I'll swim. Well, that's not entirely true. Last night's practice was a sprint/speed practice, and at the end (after I did a LOT of sprint fly) of the practice, we did two broken 200s (broken at each 50 for 10 seconds), one IM and one free. On the free one, even though I was quite worn out from all the speed work I'd done for the preceding 45 minutes, I still managed to go an adjusted 2:13. I figure there is about an 8-10 second fudge factor for that time, accounting for swimming it in practice, not wearing a meet suit, and not doing it from a dive. If that fudge factor is correct, that means my 200 free time could feasibly be in the ballpark of 2:03 in a meet. I'm tempted to put it to the test at the meet next weekend, although the 200 isn't exactly my most favoritist event ever...
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