Somethings Never Change....

Well, I did it.


Today I swam in my first Michigan Master's swim meet.  It is all thanks to my high school English teacher who convinced me that I was ready, even though I didn't think that I was.  I have only been swimming since August, and I am definitely not in great shape.  And it's been 14 years and 2 kids since I swam competitively.  I know that my goal was to compete sometime this winter, so I figured why not dive right in?  (pun intended)

So I competed in DeWitt this morning and for people who understand swimming, this next part will make sense.  I swam the 100 free in 1:18.57.  I was aiming for anything under 1:30, so that was pretty exciting.  I swam the 50 free in :34.55.  Again, anything under :38 thrills me.   The 50 free was the 6th event and I went for it and swam the 7th event, too:  100 IM.  Now this is not an event that ordinarily is in a meet, so it is really just fun.  I would like to swim the 200 IM again one day.  1:34.53.  Not great, but not a horrible showing either.  I was first in my heat, that's something.

If nothing else, this gives me base times to work with.  I am proud of my crazy self for doing it.  And I will probably do it again.  Nope, I will definitely do it again.

I met some nice people who were very supportive.  This seems like a good fit for me.  And after the meet there was a lot of food for the hungry swimmers....somethings never change.