Midlands 2005

[KJ89]

Anyone going this year if so what you swimming?

[No Fear!!]

I'm doing the 50,100 and 200 free. I was trying to get my 400 time this weekend but i didn't get it! What are you swimming?

[KJ89]

im doing 50, 100, 200 free and 100,200 fly could be doing 400,800 free and 200im but im not entering them if they think im going to do 16 lengths of a 50m pool they have got another thing coming lol

[No Fear!!]

yeah i'm kinda glad i didn't get the 400 as i hate it short course. I've only ever swum it 4 times and have never tried it long course!What time do you do for the 50,100 and 200? Looks like it's just us two going - surely natasha will be going? :) :angel: :)

[KJ89]

yeah i'm kinda glad i didn't get the 400 as i hate it short course. I've only ever swum it 4 times and have never tried it long course!What time do you do for the 50,100 and 200? Looks like it's just us two going - surely natasha will be going? :) :angel: :)
yeh tash is going but shes on holiday at the moment
Short course 50 = 28.1
100 = 1.00.5
200 = 2.13.4
you?

[No Fear!!]

Oh right!
Short course: 50= 28.5
100=1.01.9
200=2.15
you must be pretty close to your national for 50 and 100 - it depends what age group you're in.

[KJ89]

Im 16 you?

[No Fear!!]

15. I was hoping to get the national time for the 50. I only gotta get .5 off but i was well out of my pb at the weekend!

[Natasha]

Helloooo! Yep i'm going! I'm doing:
50m free
100m free
200m free
100m fly
200m IM

[KJ89]

15. I was hoping to get the national time for the 50. I only gotta get .5 off but i was well out of my pb at the weekend!
where did you swim at the weekend?

[No Fear!!]

hey natasha - good to have you back. did you have a good holiday?
I swam at the city of peterborough open meet. All my swims were pretty bad! But that was what was going to happen after i pb'd in everything at counties!

[KJ89]

i swam there!! my swims were really bad too except my 50 fly that was ok not a pb though what did you swim there?

[No Fear!!]

50 back, 100 back, 400 free, 50 breast, 200 free, 100 free and 50 free. I was about a second or two out of my pb in all of them. i suppose that's not too bad on the 400! My worse event was the 100 back. What did you swim? Saturday was a long day wasn't it?!

[KJ89]

i was only there sunday didnt go saturday because i was only supposed to be doing the 100 fly but i got my NQT at counties so there wasnt much point in doing it. I did 50, 100free and 50 fly were you in the last heat of the free?

[No Fear!!]

yeah i was in the last heat for both the 50 and the 100. You're lucky you didn't go on the saturday - most people were there for 13 hours!! :shocking:

[KJ89]

yeh so i heard sounded like a very long day!

[Heat One, Lane One]

Any sign of a programme yet? I can't remember whether I entered or not so don't want to have a wasted journey.

[No Fear!!]

i haven't seen one yet. Surely your cards will arive before you have to leave anyway?!

[KJ89]

Draft programme now online. Tash your next to Karen Pickering in the 50 Free lol

[wendy]

No offence intended but how does Karen Pickering qualify as a youth?

[KJ89]

No offence intended but how does Karen Pickering qualify as a youth?
shes 18+ lol

[KJ89]

well had a ok weekend best bit was getting to see my mates but anyway my 200free on saturday was shockingly bad not even going to repet the time but it was 6 seconds off my pb no idea why came about 20th lol. So sunday i did 200 fly and 50 free the 200fly shocked me i did moreorless on my pb and got to the final which after yesterday cheered me up a bit and my f/c was ok just off my pb in 10th. In the final i came 3rd in another pb so got bronze :) then today i did 100fly and 100free the 100 fly heat i did a pb lc and qualified for the final in 2nd and the free i came 12th just off my pb. The final was ok i did a pb lc and got my national time lc (already had it short) and came 3rd so it was an ok weekend overall for me.
Vulcans won 2 out of the 3 girls relays one by default after Co birmingham got DQ'd dont ask how 2 of the medals ended up at the bottom of the diving pit -well done liz it was funny watching them trying to retrieve them lol

[No Fear!!]

It wasn't too bad. My times were alright but i felt i could have done better. It probably didn't help that my shoulder started playing up yesterday! My 200 was a lc pb - but it wasn't that good!!I haven't swam it for a year though! My 50 was disappointing because i swam slower (just!)than i did last year. i wanted to get my national but i missed it by nearly a second!!My 100 wasn't too bad but it wasn't a pb. I did 3 relays and my times were pretty good. we didn't really get anywhere though! overall i suppose it was an average weekend so i can't be too disappointed. my shoulder hurts a lot though!! natasha was in the skins wasn't she? that looked tough! :)

[KJ89]

natasha was in the skins wasn't she? that looked tough! :)
yeh she was in the skins how did she do i? i wasnt there i went home after the fly final she didnt have a very good weekend either apart from her 100fly final that was good

[No Fear!!]

i'm not sure exactly - i think it was something like 5th.i was getting ready for my relay so i didn't see!! i'm sure natasha can tell us!!!?!

[Taxiandbank]

well had a ok weekend best bit was getting to see my mates but anyway my 200free on saturday was shockingly bad not even going to repet the time but it was 6 seconds off my pb no idea why came about 20th lol. So sunday i did 200 fly and 50 free the 200fly shocked me i did moreorless on my pb and got to the final which after yesterday cheered me up a bit and my f/c was ok just off my pb in 10th. In the final i came 3rd in another pb so got bronze :) then today i did 100fly and 100free the 100 fly heat i did a pb lc and qualified for the final in 2nd and the free i came 12th just off my pb. The final was ok i did a pb lc and got my national time lc (already had it short) and came 3rd so it was an ok weekend overall for me.
Vulcans won 2 out of the 3 girls relays one by default after Co birmingham got DQ'd dont ask how 2 of the medals ended up at the bottom of the diving pit -well done liz it was funny watching them trying to retrieve them lol
enufsed

[Katie]

PARRY LEADS SWIMMERS IN CHARITY GOLF MATCH

Olympic bronze medallist Steve Parry will head up a swimmers’ golf team at the 2005 Atos Origin Olympic Skins Challenge in Hertfordshire next week.

The former British swimmer captain’s a four-strong team at the Marriott Hanbury Manor on 3 May, which comprises current short course world champion Mark Foster and former Olympic swimmers Andy Jameson and Mark Stevens.



Heehee! :D

[No Fear!!]

is anyone going to be swimming at norwich next year???because it's all change isn't it?! im in eastern regions i think so i will be at norwich. :)

[Katie]

Are the results up anywhere?

[debbie63]

http://www.midlandswimming.org.uk/results/swimming/mdyc2005/index.htm

Should take you to the results.

Debbie

[KJ89]

is anyone going to be swimming at norwich next year???because it's all change isn't it?! im in eastern regions i think so i will be at norwich. :)
im in east midlands next year so we could be anywhere the only 50m pool in the region is Loughborough but the spectator area there is very small. At least most of my friends are still in the same region. It seems strange that people you have swum against at districts for so long are now not going to be swimming against you at regionals but hopefully that means it may be easier to get medals :)

[lozswimmer]

Will the qualifying times change by much, if at all?

[KJ89]

Will the qualifying times change by much, if at all?
erm i dont know they might get slower to get enough swimmers to make money