Swim Race- what a trip…

So I did my first swim race yesterday as part of a relay at the Multisport expo.  What a trip.  I was soooooooo nervous.  I’ve never done a swim race and we had to dive off of the blocks- and I was trying to do flip turns- both things I started doing in practice over the past 6-8 weeks to try to get ready for this race.

The relays were 4×400.  I placed myself 2nd so I would be in one of the slower spots.  I’ve never swam so hard in my life. It was pretty funny.  I made all of the flip turns except for 2 – one where I misjudged the wall and was too close, and the other where I could not see what lap I was on so I had to kind of slow to a stop, look up and find the number– I was thrilled to see the bright orange blocks indicating that I was on my last lap.

In any event, it was very fun and I would definitely do it again next year. It is very different then when you swim in practice.  I just swam the 400 and felt like I had worked out HARD for an hour.  It was pretty funny.