Videos and Results From My 2nd USMS Swim Meet

Yesterday was a fun day. Steve and I headed down to Fullerton, California in Orange County for my second USMS swim meet. As you may recall, last month we traveled to Las Vegas for my first meet in 20 years, as I learned the ropes of how Masters Swimming works and got my feet wet (no pun intended...well, maybe a little bit). ;)

This time around, I decided to choose three events so I could really focus and not feel too overwhelmed, so I swam the 100 Freestyle, the 100 I.M. (which is one lap of each stroke), and the 50 Freestyle. I really just wanted to improve upon what I did in Vegas and lo-and-behold, I was able to do just that.

I ended up winning all three of my events in my age group (35-39 yr. women).**

Though I have a ways to go, I was happy with my times yesterday and felt like the improvement from last month was a good reflection of the time I have been dedicated to training every day.

My times were:

• 100 Freestyle: 1:02.95

• 100 Individual Medley: 1:13.21

• 50 Freestyle: 28.91

And a little bonus to them all is that each of these were qualifying times for the USMS Nationals meet that will be held in Atlanta, Georgia in May.  In Las Vegas, I qualified in one event (the 500 Freestyle), so I was stoked to make it in these three as well.

Here are two videos that Steve shot of me yesterday if you want to check out two great ways to completely wear out a tattooed mom of three.

**In USMS, the events are deck-seeded, slowest to fastest by entered time; ages and genders combined. And THAT means that any age or gender can be swimming next to any age or gender, in any particular heat, depending on what their entered time is. So winning (or not winning) your heat, doesn't necessarily let you know where you placed in your own age group, until all of the heats are swum and the times are collected.