Today we had the mini meet. I was a bit late, as I was coming from Sandwich, from a meeting at the Riverview School. I missed most of my warm-up , but I was able to swim a few laps before the heats were announced.
Our Races were:
200 IM
100 Breaststroke
100 Backstroke
This means that I got to compare my times from the last meet, to two of the times from this meet.
My times were:
200 IM: 2:33 minutes
100 Breaststroke:
100 Backstroke: 58 seconds
This is excellent. For my IM and Backstroke time, the two races I swam last time, I improved on both times. I improved on two seconds for my IM, which doesn't seem like it's a big deal, but in swimming it is. However, my time improvement in the Backstroke is even more exciting. It is an improvement of five seconds, which is an accomplishment in itself, but it's also under a minute, which is also a huge accomplishment.
These improvements on my time tell me that I am achieving my goals for this activity because I am steadily getting better, and faster. I may still be a bit slower in the pool, than most of the swimmers, but I can tell that I am improving immensely, and my time improvements are an indicator of this.
The atmosphere at the pool were very quiet. It was All Bands Night in Falmouth, so a lot of swimmers were performing for that. I was actually the only swimmer from the 7:00pm time, but I raced with the fastest swimmers from the 6:00, with two girls, who had faster times than I did in both the IM and the Breaststroke. Hopefully, next mini-meet, I can swim even faster, even though, chances are we will be swimming races we did the for the first mini-meet, or races we haven't swam before.
Not sure what we're swimming on Monday, but I'm slightly excited.
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