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.<\/p>\n
100m Backstroke – Event 5 started just before 1pm<\/p>\n
Heat 13 of 14 was my start.
\nNorth York Trillium Masters swimmer Peter Straka was kind enough to grab my splits:
\n36.8 out – which was far too fast for this point of the season
\nBack in 44.2 for a 1:21.02 LCM … good enough for 2nd place Men 45-49<\/p>\n
200m Individual Medley – Event 6<\/p>\n
Heat 10 of 14 was my start with Queenslander Leanne in the lane beside (as in 100BK in 2006)
\nA much more controlled and less painful race than the 100BK
\nFinal results aren’t up yet, but a time of 3;06 was good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading