Swimming Meet

So today I drove 2 hours (each way) to a swim meet. It was just north of Sacramento in a place called Roseville. This was an invitational meet, i.e. no age groups, and the competition seemed to be at about the level of a Wellington Open meet.

The day was really nice, and the pool was great. Lots of space to relax, not a huge number of people, and it was warm - around 30C I'd say. My swimming went better than the last time I raced, as I wasn't as far off my best times. So I finaled in all my events, so I got to swim them twice :)

Before the finals session started, they had the opening ceremony. As usual this includes the American anthem. But this time they had these girls with fins, kickboards and American flags swimming down the pool to it. It was timed so that it would take them the whole anthem to reach the end..

So as for my results, I was 6th in the 100BK I think. I won the 50FR (so a few guys scratched, but I'll take it :D) where I actually was pretty close to my PB, and I came 4th in the 200BRST with a time better than the last time I swam it..