Post date: Feb 24, 2013 6:59:11 AM
Ukrainian Masters Swimming Championship for Pykarpattya Cup 2013
This meet was the hardest meet I swam ever - well I was supposed to work it out hard - strange way to celebrate my own BD :)
Seems making some changes during this specific meet is a bad tradition. I came a bit earlier to do a warm up to avoid most crowded time. But organizers decided to switch places for the warm up and participants parade and asked everyone to leave the water. So my warm up was:
Warm up:
1x600m Reversed IM 50m Free streamline flutter kick / 100m Free
50m Breast streamline kick / 100m Breast
50m Back streamline flutter kick / 100m Back
50m Streamline dolphin kick / 100m Fly.
1x400m 50m Breast w/fists pull drill / 50m Breast
50m Breast 1 pull + 2 kicks drill / 50m Breast
50m Breast w/dolphin kick drill / 50m Breast
50m Head lead breast drill / 50m Breast.
Then I was supposed to swim 4x50 Breast in 75% of MHR but couldn't do that.
Results:
200m Breaststroke: 2'58"91
100m IM: 1'17"73
100m Breaststroke: 1'22"0
First was 200m Breaststroke. I expected it will be a bit hard to swim it because since December I mainly swam CVS and technical tasks. Almost no intervals and speed work. Still I expected a bit better result than 2'58"91
200m breaststroke split: 25m - 0'18"04 (7 strokes / 25m)
50m - 0'40"50 (22"46) (8 strokes / 25m)
75m - 1'02"87 (22"37) (7 strokes / 25m)
100m - 1'25"60 (22"73) (8 strokes / 25m)
125m - 1'48"67 (23"07) (8 strokes / 25m)
150m - 2'12"30 (23"63) (9 strokes / 25m)
175m - 2'35"57 (23"27) (9 strokes / 25m)
200m - 2'58"91 (23"34) (11 strokes / 25m)
Second was 100m IM. According to the meet schedule there was planned 30 min break after 200m Breaststroke event for award ceremony so I hoped to recover a bit but the organizers decided to move it to the end of the meet so 100m IM was straight after 200 breast. The only positive moment in the event is that I swam it only 1.5 sec worse than my personal best result.
100m IM split: 25m - 0'15"28 (8 strokes / 25m)
50m - 0'38"38 (23"10) (17 strokes / 25m)
75m - 0'58"52 (20"14) (11 strokes / 25m)
100m - 1'17"7 (19"21) (23 strokes / 25m)
Third was 100 breaststroke. I swam it a bit mechanically since I was already tired. Still that wasn't my worse result.
After the end of the meet I felt tired and a bit nauseous. Thanks to my team mates they gave me some food - I was eating and eating and eating as if I've got a black hole in my stomach. After that I felt a bit better.