Jan 10
My son and his incredible swimming weekend
J had a swim meet this past weekend (January 8-9). Meets held at the Zesiger Pool at MIT are usually really big meets...lots of teams from the area participate, with over 800 kids swimming in 19 lanes (split into two pools, one for 12 and under and one for 13 and over).
Now that he's 13, he swims with the bigger kids. (The good news for me is that this is the closer end of the pool, which means that I can actually see him swim.) For this meet, he was scheduled to swim 7 events, which are listed below, along with his seed times and results. (He got cut from the 8th event, the 500 free, because of time...the meet was going long.)
- 50 free. Seed: 31.39. Result: 30.92. (Cut: .47)
- 100 free. Seed: 1:10.22. Result: 1:09.43. (Cut: .79)
- 200 free. Seed: 2:32.04. Result: 2:28.62. (Cut: 3.42)
- 100 back. Seed: 1:23.13. Result: 1:20.32. (Cut: 2.81)
- 200 back. Seed: 3:02.80. Result: 2:55.31. (Cut 7.49)
- 100 fly. Seed: 1:37.40. Result: 1:31.57. (Cut: 5.83)
- 200 IM. Seed: 3:13.32. Result: 2:57.02. (Cut: 16.30)
All in all, he did one heck of a job :-)
He's now qualified for Regionals in 50 free, 100 free, and 100 back. Woot!
