Day 3 recap

The third and final day of the 65th annual Husky Invitational. Atmosphere at the pool tends to die a little bit on the last day of the meet. But not in the nanook corner. With 3/3 pbs in the 200 back and Victoria as the first seed for the finals, breaking the college record in the heats. Another first seed for the 100 free finals and a 3 second pb from the one and only swimmer in the 200 fly. 

The mile brought more good news, with the 6 swimmers all swimming best times. The mile is swum after all the other heat swims are done. So it's like a separate session on its own in between heats and finals. It's good that way, no annoying sprinters in the warm up pool. I've never swum the mile before so I guess any time was a pb. Based on my entered converted time from opens in march it was almost 22 seconds faster. The other cool thing about it was that I split the 1000 faster than I had previously. When I swum it back in November I went 10.40. This time I swum it in 10.32 which means I got two B cuts from one race. Now that's efficient!

It's easy to compare these times to converted ones, but it's really apples with oranges.

This is BEFORE the warm up got brutal. 1000 swimmers in 2 25y pools makes for some close friends.

Day 2 recap

Another good day at the office. More pbs and b cuts. Bente swam the A cut time twice (heats and finals) so she's guaranteed a spot at nationals in March. With B cuts you can't be sure if your going or not, they invite the top 20 or so depending on the event.

In metres the big thing is to break 1 minute 100 free. Yesterday we had people break some other significant barriers. McKinley broke 5 minutes in 400 IM and Genevieve broke 1 minute 100 fly. That goes along with Gabi breaks 5 for the 500 on Friday.

I swum a pb in the 200 free heats, converted pb as well. Seeded 12th for the final but maybe sitting at the pool for about 10+ hours didn't do me a lot of good. I pulled a 'new Zealand' and swum slower in the finals. Is it in our blood? 

No excuses for the mile today. Last race of the meet. So " drive it like you stole it" " Ugly it up"

Fun fact. It's colder here than in fairbanks at the moment. As the counting crows say- you always take the weather with you.... Unfortunately.

Day 1 recap

Good start to the morning for the nanooks. 6/6 pbs in the 500 free heat swims. I did was one of those and it's even a converted pb too. Plenty of other great swims too.

There were 3 records broken today. Gabi in the 500 free, first nanook under 5 minutes. Margot in the 200 IM and the 400 medley relay. 

I got a second swim for the 500 but couldn't pull through with another pb. Tomorrow's another day and another race. 200 free. 

Arrived in Seattle. Checked into the hotel, flash as. The beds are much comfier than dorm room ones. We had warm up at the pool this morning. This is what it looked like. Wait until tomrrow, it will be a bit different. A few more people maybe.

The meet has gone up on meet mobile now. Just search husky. Otherwise swimphone.com and search husky as well.

Have you seen the snow?

The last two were taken at 3pm aka sunset.

Husky Time

Travel gear assigned and Itinerary out. We fly out Wednesday morning (after a warm up swim here at the usual 5.30am).

There is plenty of room to move on the psych sheets but top 30 for my top 3 (500, 200 and 1650). Ill be doing one of these each day and maybe some relays, as well as a 50 free. With over 1000 athletes and nearly 5000 entries its going to be a long few days. The good news is the morning heat sessions only last 4-5 hours because the pool is split so there are two heats swimming all the time. There are still 31 heats of womens 200 free though....



There are heaps kids from the surrounding states and about 10 other university teams. Most people are after fast times to qualify for nationals/ state champs. Its not really about making finals but swimming fast with a good rest and some proper racing togs. I will try and find a results feed or something for once we start racing, sorry no meet mobile....

Black Friday

The day after Thanksgiving is American Boxing day. People get trampled in the midnight sales.









Got the idea?

Anyway Thanksgiving was great, Turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. I watched an american Classic "I Love Lucy" and then had leftovers the next day. Two days of school there we're off to Washington!