Etobicoke Semi-Serious IV – Meet wrap-up

Etobicoke’s Semi-Serious IV had a pretty big turnout with racing in both 25m tanks. BEAST had five swimmers in attendance:

Leslie, Gen, Don, Pat, Cat

Full meet results and videos are posted on the BEAST News page.

It was Leslie’s first meet and she sure jumped in big, swimming the 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m Freestyle individual events plus both the 4 x 50m Free and Medley relays. For Pat, it was her second meet and she progressed to using the blocks … coming home with a 2nd place finish in the 200m Free and 3rd in the 50m Breaststroke! Veteran’s Gen and Cat swum well … Cat placed 2nd in the 100m Fly and Gen 3rd in 50m Backstroke.

The Semi-Serious competition took place mid-way through the meet during the Official’s break. Fourteen team teams had been randomly generated by EOMAC with around six swimmers each. Teams were a mix of men and women from various clubs. The fun relay events ranged from swimming with continuous contact to a kickboard and pull buoy to a six swimmer train. The team I was on ended up tied for first place after about four events. One more relay would decide the 2008 “Not Serious” Championship … a six pool width relay. We came out victorious (by almost a width), but as you can see from the Championship photo, it might not have been a fair race … our team was stacked with GIANTS!!

The Gigantic Team

Many thanks to Etobicoke for putting on such a fantastic meet!