Blue Group October Meet Wrap-up

Michael Chasson

Blue: 

Two of the best things I noticed this past weekend. Very smart races. Clear and calm conversations immediately following races. I love it when you all come back and know what went on. Something that tells me you are thinking properly at practices and then translating to meets correctly. Do you remember what happened during your race? If yes, your brain was ready for that task and was able to slow it down in your mind. If not, we were not as prepared to race, and our brains couldn’t keep up with the high energy and movement. 

There were two approaches we have been practicing, specifically in the 100 and 200 events, that I saw produce great results and swims. The two challenges with these events: 100s are just long enough that we are afraid to be aggressive; 200s require focus in the stroke to hold pace from the second 50 to the last. We did a phenomenal job of both of those. 

Huge shout-out to the 1000 and 400 IM swimmers. You are all giving yourself evidence that you can work through some serious discomfort AND make choices during races. 

Breakthrough swims:

  • Enung Chong under 1:00 in 100 Fly
  • Stella 100 Back 4-second drop to a 1:05
  • Lilian Fernandes 1:02.1 100 back
  • Ryan Foley CAN swim backstroke, dropping 2 seconds
  • Roman under 1:00 in the 100 Free for the first time
  • Evan hitting a 2-second drop in his 100 Free
  • Ellie 0.7% from the 1000 sectionals cut (PB 10:57 - cut 10:52) AND 1% from the 400 IM sectionals cut (PB 4:42 - cut 4:39)
  • Luke 5 second drop in his 100 Free
  • Rachel’s aggressive 100 Free
  • Nathan broke 1:00 for the first time
  • Sophia Wang within 0.8 seconds of the sectionals 50 Free cut
  • Sydney with 6 best times