Day 3

Of a busy racing weekend went like this...

I was a little frustrated with some of the kids as warmup started and they kept rolling in late. I think it is interesting that they underestimate how important it is in the scheme of things. That is how you get your body ready to go. Triathletes ignore it as well. Alas, they do and 10 or so of our kids missed some piece of warmup.

Rin had posted a 1:58 IM in the morning up in MN so the day had a good start to it. At Loveland the day just got better. Jennifer continued a great meet by going best times in the fly and the IM qualifying for sectionals in the IM in 2:12.54. The girls breast was sound as always for us with Amanda at 2:27, Hannah at 2:25 and Kourt leading the way in 2:23. Topher was a best time in the boys race at 2:22 and Andrew Bollinger recorded his first Sectional time in the 100 back.

By far Anna had the swims of the day however. With the college stress off her back for the first time in a year, she blazed all three of her swims. 1:52.2 200 free and a 2:09.2 200 IM were great swims but the back took the cake. She went out in 27 and back in 29 for a 56.6 and a new Junior National cut. Congrats Anna.

I had left the last meet feeling like we didn't care. Although I feel like the masses have some work to do, I think we were better. There is a thin line between good and great and it is way easier to do good. We still get lauded and we still get some rewards. The effort for great is much more and the rewards in public do not always match up, but inside they are worth it.