Now as you all know my coach will be leaving when his wife has the kids and so Ryan and this guy named Andrejs Duda will be our coach. I know most people don't know who he is but he is an Olympian in the 100 fly. He swam under Swim Atlanta but when he goes to meets like the Olympics he swims for Latvia his home country. He will be our coach for the lik three months that Mark is gone and we think that since Mary our dry-land coach left after Mark comes back that Andrejes will be it. 

Now we have to talk about the old technical suits being banned. In my opinion they should not have been banned they should have just been made so that only kids in the senior age group could wear them. I mean really what if your like me and had two lzr legs and couldn't wear them anymore i mean it really stinks. But if you can't tell the new technical suits are starting to look like the old ones.  I think that they should just let us wear it i mean what is it going to hurt i mean speedo and them lost a lot of money when they were banned just bring them back!

Like in any sport or anything you have to do in life you need to set goals I set some goals for myself for swimming. I made my goals once but then my dad told me they were not good enough and that I should not be basing my goals off of slow times I had last year but rather off of what I should have been swimming last year. So instead of my goal for the 100 bk being a 53.5 he changed it to a 50.5 which is an extremely fast time. So i have to work really hard to meet them.

I have just completed my first three days of practice. Those three days being the longest I've ever experienced. Normally if we were in the middle of the season i would think those sets we very easy but I'm so out of shape that the hurt. But i know what I have to do to get better and reach my goals. We have a three hour practice on Saturday and Mark told us to bring running shoes and dry-land clothes  so we are either doing a biathlon or just a long dry-land. Also my Coaches wife is pregnant and due anytime now.   

For those of you that don't know I have just had his long course state meet. I did fairly well swimming eight individuals and four relays. I swam the 100 and 200 back, the 50-400 frees (50,100,200, and 400), the 400 IM, and the 100 fly. The relays I swam were the 200 and 400 freestyle relays (because the 800 got canceled) and the 200 and 400 medley relays. Even though I swam all of this there were only 3 events he didn't drop in. I didn't drop in the 400 IM, the 400 free, or the 200 back. I also did not score enough points to go to zones.

Shaq vs. Michael

Shaq races Michael for the last time . Michael gives Shaq a 25 yard lead and he still cant handle Michael.

Best relay ever

Dual in the pool