Do you like swimming relays?Well on 6/23/13 I went to a swim meet only for relays. I swam one event, breaststroke for the boys 9-10 IM relay. The order went like this, backstroke then breaststroke after that it was butterfly and finally it was freestyle. I was swimming with my really fast friends. Eric was doing backstroke, I did breaststroke, Kyle did butterfly and Alex did freestyle. We were racing all other teams in our division. Those teams had better older people but bad younger kids so our team mostly won every event in the relay carnival.
When we had warm up it was the shortest warm up I ever had in my life. It was fifteen minutes long but it felt like five minutes in the water. All I did was an IM and a dive. One end was like a regular pool, but the deep end was thirteen feet deep. If you look above the water it may not look that deep but when you enter the water from the deep side it would look really deep. Thirteen feet is longer than the well at our local pool. Our pool only goes up to ten feet six inches.
When the meet started it was the relays for the older kids (13-18). They were mostly IM so four people were on each team. The order was butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. We got first in a few events and suddenly we got a third place on an event. The same thing happened for a long time. Then it started to rain and it was almost my event so we had to wait for all the thunder and rain to stop.
We had to wait for the rain to stop so we could resume swimming. We waited for about 30 minutes and we could resume. After the 8 and under girls Medley relay we started our event. First Eric sprinted backstroke, then I sprinted breaststroke,then Kyle sprinted butterfly and Alex finished it of with a sprint freestyle. When we were finished we were ahead from the 2nd place team by 25 meters.
It was a really good Relay Carnival. Hopefully I get invited to more Relay Carnivals in the future!
When we had warm up it was the shortest warm up I ever had in my life. It was fifteen minutes long but it felt like five minutes in the water. All I did was an IM and a dive. One end was like a regular pool, but the deep end was thirteen feet deep. If you look above the water it may not look that deep but when you enter the water from the deep side it would look really deep. Thirteen feet is longer than the well at our local pool. Our pool only goes up to ten feet six inches.
When the meet started it was the relays for the older kids (13-18). They were mostly IM so four people were on each team. The order was butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. We got first in a few events and suddenly we got a third place on an event. The same thing happened for a long time. Then it started to rain and it was almost my event so we had to wait for all the thunder and rain to stop.
We had to wait for the rain to stop so we could resume swimming. We waited for about 30 minutes and we could resume. After the 8 and under girls Medley relay we started our event. First Eric sprinted backstroke, then I sprinted breaststroke,then Kyle sprinted butterfly and Alex finished it of with a sprint freestyle. When we were finished we were ahead from the 2nd place team by 25 meters.
It was a really good Relay Carnival. Hopefully I get invited to more Relay Carnivals in the future!
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