The day at Southport on the Gold Coast – Queensland Australia started with a warm-up from 8:00 to 8:45. Racing started at 9:00am with four 400m events using “Rolling Starts” – so basically individual time trials. The first heat sets off all together. As soon as the first swimmer is done a swimmer from the next heat is set off in that lane. That process just continues with starts and finishes just rolling along.
100m Backstroke – Event 5 started just before 1pm
Heat 13 of 14 was my start.
North York Trillium Masters swimmer Peter Straka was kind enough to grab my splits:
36.8 out – which was far too fast for this point of the season
Back in 44.2 for a 1:21.02 LCM … good enough for 2nd place Men 45-49
200m Individual Medley – Event 6
Heat 10 of 14 was my start with Queenslander Leanne in the lane beside (as in 100BK in 2006)
A much more controlled and less painful race than the 100BK
Final results aren’t up yet, but a time of 3;06 was good.