SAISA Swimming

From the 24th to the 27th of September, the OSC swim squad will be travelling to Dubai, India to participate in the SAISA Swim Meet. We have been training since week 1 of this term (the week of the 12th of August). We train 4 to 5 times a week: Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon, Thursday morning, Friday afternoon and every second Saturday morning. Last weekend, the 12th of September, we had a friendly swim meet with the local swim squad. Unfortunately for us, they train quite a lot more than us and sustain training throughout the year. So they were exceptionally fast. However, it was good racing practice, and it was nevertheless an enjoyable day. My events and current times are:

• 200m Individual Medley ( 3.27.99 minutes)
• 200m Freestyle ( 3.06.38 minutes)
• 100m Breastroke ( unknown)
• 100m Freestyle ( 1.19.26 minutes)

At the moment these times are OK, but not fantastic. My IM time is about 12 seconds off the final time and my 200m Freestyle is about 6 seconds off the final time. Obviously this is quite alot to improve on, but my aim is to make it in to at least one final at the meet. I was quite happy with my performance at the meet - the times weren't fantastic but my tumble-turns have improved alot. So in the next few training sessions I will work on improving technique so that I have the best chance to acheive my best at the SAISA swim meet.

photos are coming - I am having trouble accessing them.