Yes, finally got around to writing about it. Hmph. I swam quite well, by my count. I was ahead all the way!! Until the breaststroke. And then I lost it all. As usual. Did do a much better time, though. And I would have been very happy but the judge in my lane had the inkling of an idea to disqualify whoever he could in the lane he was judging and disqualified me. (He did disqualify 5 of 7 people. In a total of seven 400m IM heats) Of course, the official reason given is that I touched the wall with one hand. Apparently though, it seems I touched the wall with TWO hands NOT on the same horizontal plane. And I thought that debate died three or so years back. Evidently I was wrong.
The 50 Free was... okay. Not much to say on that. My time was okay. Not fantastic but fair.
And as for the Inter-formation swim meet, which finally ended today, it was needlessly exciting. And tiring. The 4 of us in the Naval Swim Team for the Chain of Command had no idea how fast the Artillary team was and considering they had Kenneth, Andrei and another ex-swimmer as their officer (2nd Lieu.), we were somewhat anxious. Hence the sprints done by the first three swimmers. Namely, Terence, Melvin (-yn?) Liew and I. We were neck-to-neck until the last lap where we found out their commanding officer wasn't much of a swimmer. Bah. They could have said something. Then at least we wouldn't have had to panic and sprint.
Posted by Ming at March 18, 2005 08:59 PM