2004

[KJ89]

What were your best and worst bits of 2004?

[FlyingBean]

What were your best and worst bits of 2004?
Best bits have to be:
1. Getting pb times that I thought were impossible and then beating them several times :flash:
2. Reducing several dress sizes :cool:

Worst bits are work related - has to have been the worst year ever at work, but managed to survive, against all odds, which my integrity in tact. :banghead: I think the main reason I survived was the strong support that swimming provides me, both in terms of the sport itself and the people you meet along the way. :king:

[mad4it]

Best bits: passing my exams with AABC, going sub 1.10 for 100fly at long last! turning 17 and being able to learn to drive!

Worst bits: going 10.08 LC for 800fr :shocking:, leaving school and my friends, and not qualifying for ASAs last August.

All in all tho, a very good year, and a good hogmanay party last night to finish it all off :beer: :D

[Natasha]

Best bits:
* Nationals, did so much better than expected!
* My mum and step-dad's wedding
* Getting my confidence back

And I don't think I've had a really really bad part, but there's been lots of little things that have got me down throughout the year.

[Jaime]

My best bit was passing all my gcses and doing alot better than i expected but my swimming didnt go that great and i was ill alot last year so i have to swim twice aswell this year to make up for last year :p also just missing out on the final at nationals was really anoying :rolleyes:

[Katie]

Best bits: making 2 semis at the Olympic Trials, and 2 finals at the British SC, getting my A level grades for Nottingham, having a crazy 18th bday party and going to the panto with my squad last Monday!!!
Worst bits: hmmmm a few things got me down along the way but nothing stands out as having been terrible! It was a good year :D. Maybe waiting for exam results was pretty awful though!

Happy new year everyone! Hope 2005's excellent :)

[Top10ranking]

getting NQT at swansea and hazelmere for next year were definantly great however i was peeved at missing it by 0.12 last year and then british swimming splitting up the 15/16 age group which would have ment i got the NQT :cry:

[lozswimmer]

umm best bits - pbs and doing well in competitions, oh and i actually managed to do 8x200 fly without drowning yesterday ;) which was ok cos id never done a 200 before! lol
worst bits - just little things every now and again which got me down but nothing too bad! :)

[Swim Star]

My best bits of 2004 were getting a lot of p.bs! winning lots of things and did well at school. the bad things were some dissapointments in swimming and being falsely accused at my club for things i hadn't done.
swimstar :king: xxx

[londoner62]

Best Bits have got to be hitting PB after PB ealy in the year and the occasional one towards the end of the year; Worst bit has got to be a bereavement in the family.

[Katie]

Got to add (another best bit) FINALLY breaking 2.04 on my 200 free long course. V exciting and I'd been waiting a while for it!

[KJ89]

best bits of 2004 have to be:

swimming at national schools
getting a medal at districts
meeting my mates at swimming competitions

worst bits of 2004 were:

not getting my national time
my best mate being knocked off her bike

[Gina]

Best bits of 2004 ...

Coming back home from a hell of a year at uni.
Getting settled into my new full time job (getting paid loads!)
Starting to love swimming again (training and competing)
Doing sub 66 on 100 fly
Being able to race breaststroke again
Going to Australia in jan/feb

Worst bits of 2004 ...

Being at uni til August
Being ill
Not being able to swim at SC Nationals (heart breaking :cry: )
Leaving a few close friends at Bath (including Londoners little cousin Mark! :) )

[Pete]

The year I decided to do something for myself rather than continually doing things for others (not that I want to stop doing things for others).

[Bazza]

Swimming wise I'm petty glad to see the back of 2004, although there were highlights out of the water. Just one PB though. :(

[Breezer]

Glad to see the back of it :)

[matt]

I just thought of a good moment for me, when I got my exam results. Also when I went to Italy that was a highlight for sure oh and the Geography fieldtrip that was quite a lot of fun.

I didn't really have a good swimming year, the one before that wasn't great either.

[GettingFaster]

Best bits are pretty much all swimming-related, and more importantly, swimming-people-related. Had some superb away trips with some very good wrinkly friends (Palma, Sheffield, Dublin all way up there). My oldest SC PB is now 1st Nov this year, so they've been dropping like lead weights.
Worst bits I won't mention. I wouldn't like to sound too much like ktc but it got pretty horrid in the middle there. Unfortunately this year looks like it's going to be really, really horrid on the personal side of things so I'll just have to really get in that pool and hammer away at the swimming so I can have some more good best bits to write about at the end of the year.