SAISA competition.

I really enjoyed going to Mumbai - despite generally disliking competition, I liked the whole SAISA atmosphere. I cheered very loudly the entire time and lost my voice... but that was part of the fun. The only things I thought could have been better were the social events: we didn't get much time to get to know anyone from other schools, which was a shame. The three days were extremely punishing physically. I was billeted with Shin and we barely talked to our host family in the evenings because we arrived back at their house and fell straight into bed. I was exhausted. In terms of my races, I was very happy with my results, as I placed in every single race I entered in.



Individual races

• 100 m Freestyle: 1.16.30 s. 6th place.
  
• 200 m IM: 3.21.09 s. 5th place.
  
• 100 m Breastroke: 1.42.27 s. 6th place.


• 200 m Freestyle: 2.57.75 s. 5th place.

Relays

• 200 m Freestyle Relay: 5.21.71 s (total). 4th place.
• 200 m Medley Realy: 2.40.50 s (total). 3rd place.
  

I swam the Freestyle leg of the Medley relay, and the last leg of the Freestyle relay. Given that there were maybe 20 people in some of the races (in heats of 6) I was very pleased to make the final for all of my races. This did mean I was very tired because I had to swim some of my races twice (the others were timed finals, which means they just place you according to the time you swam). The most exciting highlights of the trip were definitely when Constanz won first in her backstroke race and when Phil-Jin won first in his butterfly race. These were the only two first places that OSC achieved.

OSC acheived 4th place overall, which was good without being outstanding, but a pretty accurate placing of our abilities. There were some incredibly good swimmers there. However, we were also given the Sportsmanship Award, which was great! The only downside of the trip was the flight back, where we were delayed for about 5 hours and stayed the entire night in the airport. I felt that this was a really good conclusion to the 6 weeks of training I had put in.