Today I went to a RMSC swim meet to compete with other RMSC teams. The pool where we competed at was where I usually practiced so it was closer to my home than others. I was going to swim three events, 100 meter freestyle, 50 meter backstroke and 100 meter breaststroke. What was interesting was that this was my first winter meet and it was 50 meter lengths. The only age group that was going to participate was 11 and 12's.
First we had warm ups. Each RMSC team got into a lane and started to practice. Each team had different practice routines. We did a lot of freestyle while also practicing on other strokes we were planing to compete in. Somethings we did were 2 100 meter freestyle and 2 100 meter non-freestyle. They were 50 swim 50 kick. We also did 50 meter sprints diving from each end.
Soon the meet began and it started off with IM. It took about an hour until I was going to get called up because there were a lot of heats of IM before my first event which was 100 meter freestyle. When I was starting to swim, I was going as fast as I could. I was in first by a landslide until it was time to do a flip turn at 50 meters. I ran out of energy to swim and I slowly made it to the wall. In the end I wasn't last and beat about 1/4 of the total people who raced in that event.
Event number 2 was a 50 meter backstroke. I knew I wasn't good at this because over the summer I swam this and got 50 seconds as my fastest time. So I just jumped in the water and swam backstroke as fast as I could. In the end I had done better than my summer time because I dropped 6 seconds and got 44 seconds.
My last event was the 100 meter breaststroke. Breaststroke was my best stroke and it was also my friend, Clayton's best stroke as well. We were both in the same heat and so we had an unofficial race to see who could win. There was one guy in our heat who was really fast and zoomed by everyone. But at least most of the race I was second and Clayton was third. But in the end I must have slowed down so we were in a close race. I had to use up all my energy to zoom to the finish and beat him by one second. In the end, it didn't really matter.
First we had warm ups. Each RMSC team got into a lane and started to practice. Each team had different practice routines. We did a lot of freestyle while also practicing on other strokes we were planing to compete in. Somethings we did were 2 100 meter freestyle and 2 100 meter non-freestyle. They were 50 swim 50 kick. We also did 50 meter sprints diving from each end.
Soon the meet began and it started off with IM. It took about an hour until I was going to get called up because there were a lot of heats of IM before my first event which was 100 meter freestyle. When I was starting to swim, I was going as fast as I could. I was in first by a landslide until it was time to do a flip turn at 50 meters. I ran out of energy to swim and I slowly made it to the wall. In the end I wasn't last and beat about 1/4 of the total people who raced in that event.
Event number 2 was a 50 meter backstroke. I knew I wasn't good at this because over the summer I swam this and got 50 seconds as my fastest time. So I just jumped in the water and swam backstroke as fast as I could. In the end I had done better than my summer time because I dropped 6 seconds and got 44 seconds.
My last event was the 100 meter breaststroke. Breaststroke was my best stroke and it was also my friend, Clayton's best stroke as well. We were both in the same heat and so we had an unofficial race to see who could win. There was one guy in our heat who was really fast and zoomed by everyone. But at least most of the race I was second and Clayton was third. But in the end I must have slowed down so we were in a close race. I had to use up all my energy to zoom to the finish and beat him by one second. In the end, it didn't really matter.
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