Swimming

So last week I had a four day swimming competition out in Clovis, near Fresno. It's like in a very large valley surrounded by hills. It's incredibly obvious when you get there, that it gets very, very hot in summer. Over the course of the week it ranged over 30C-40C of dry heat during the day time!

So onto the swimming, I managed to do my best times of the year, and few life time personal bests while swimming freestyle in the 4x100m and 4x200m relays. I was a little off making the final in the 100m Breaststroke, but was quite close to my lifetime PB, which I was happy with, considering my training has been a lot different to what it was when I did that time, i.e. I think my training was a little easy compared with then. However the difference in training certainly showed in the 200m Breaststroke where I was about five seconds off my lifetime best. So I had the speed, but not the endurance..

Cool thing about the trip was that my team is sponsored by TYR. So I got some new racing shorts, cap, t-shirt and track suit all gratis! I think the TYR track suit jacket in particular is a nice piece of fashion ;)