Faces of Victory! - Except for mine - More photos from that 'rockin' Mission Viejo Nadadores Relay Meet

SPMA Regionals is coming: Be very afraid. Mark Savage took these photos yesterday at the Mission Viejo Nadadores Relay Swim Meet.

His work can be sen here: [Link] and here [Link]

The Mission Viejo Natadores held a great relay meet yesterday

I swam a personal best in the 50-LCM; (:28.4) but I had a rolling start. At 'SPMA Regionals' I am going to try and do a :27.9

Erik, Jenny, Matt, and Arlette set two records but one was DQed. I will post more on this later.

The one on the bottom is me.

The Photos above were taken by Mark Savage Photography. Here is a link toone of his sites: [Link]

Never swim a 100 LCM like a 100 SCY! - Guess how I learned that?

Above is a picture of Jenny owning everybody in her heat during the 400 200 IM at the Mission Viejo Nadadores meet today. (Click on it to enlarge it.)

Though she owned in the 400 200 IM, I was barely able to hold her off in the 100 free. I swam a 108.23 and she she swam a 1:08.57. It was close; I saw her in the corner of my eye the whole race and if the race would have been 1 meter longer I would have lost.

Though my time wasn't that great, I had a good dive, I heard my splash first and did four clean dolphin kicks within clean, blue, water. Totally yummy!

I really failed in the last 15 meters because I didn't breathe enough early on. Taking lots of breaths during the first 50 is like depositing "oxygen" in the "bank" for later "withdrawal" during the last 25 meters. (Erik Hochstein has warned me about that I think Clay came up with the metaphor but I summarily ignored them both. My bad!)

Mark Moore will coach the USMS World Championship Team

From Lane 9 News: "...MARK Moore, the head coach of the Mission Viejo Nadadores, has been named the head coach of the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) team headed to Perth, Australia for the FINA World Masters Championships next April. ..."

I see Mark Moore at every meet I swim at. He is a very friendly and helpful coach and the USMS will be well represented: [Link]