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DECEMBER MEET


So, this morning a few of you asked about what events to swim at the December meet.  We want you to think of this as a championship meet and with that it is important for you to be smart when picking events.

We will try to answer a few questions here in the hopes that it will help you.   The first thing to discuss is what suit should I wear.  Our suggestion is that do what ever is going to make you comfortable and be able to race fast.  You all know what the right thing to do is.

Now when picking your events as we said, be smart. Notice that on Saturday the 13-14 year old events are both in the morning and evening.  Sunday it changes to allow the 15 and over swimmers to swim both in the morning and evening.  The reason for this is to allow us to get more events in and give a feel of a championship meet, where we are swimming both in the morning and evening.  Do I need to swim both sessions on Saturday or Sunday?  We highly recommend that you do to get the feel of a championship meet.   

Now you should look at your best events and go from there.   Be smart here, don’t bite of more than you can handle.

You don’t want to put events back to back if you can avoid it.  For an example  a swimmer who talked with me asked about swimming the 100 free and the 200 back on Sunday, and unfortunately those events were back to back. She had a vey good argument for swimming he 100 free, as it is a good event for her and she has not done it this year.  What she decided was that she really wanted to give the 100 free and since it was before the 200 back, it was decided to swim both and we will take what ever comes in the 200 back.   What we are tying to get you all to do it start looking at events and the order they fall.  If you have one of your best events that you really want to do well in, but it falls after an event that you want to do, you may want to give that a second look.  This is the type of meet that you want to do your very best events and just because it says that you can do 3 each session or 6 for your meet total, you don’t have to if you don’t think you have time to recover.  There are other meets for that.   If you have any questions at all please feel free to email me and I will try to help guide you through the process.

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