My swimmer is back!!

Swim season begins next week. As you know Tyaan broke her collarbone in January which kept her out of the water for several weeks. She's been in the water for a couple weeks now doing her best to get back in shape and working on her technique. She's been very worried about how hard it was to complete her 100 butterfly (her most strenuous event) and how quickly she was getting tired when she swam.

The last couple of days the coach has been doing timed events to place swimmers in their various events for the first meet next Tuesday. There wasn't any worry about Tyaan losing her place in any of her events because she's coming off of an injury so shouldn't be at her best, plus she's the team captain, plus she swam so well last year that she's earned her place. But, she wanted to get an idea of where she was at so she knew how hard it was going to be to get her goal of CIF times this season.

Here are her times for each event. To give perspective on these numbers I'm including information from last season as well.

50 butterfly
1st meet last season - 0:34
best time last season - 0:32
Time now - 0:34

200 freestyle
1st meet last season - 2:29
best time last season - 2:25
Time now - 2:33

100 freestyle
1st meet last season - 1:08
best time last season - 1:04
Time now - 1:06

100 butterfly
1st meet last season - 1:23
best time last season - 1:13
Time now - 1:18

As you can see she did exceptionally well! She called me from the pool deck just after finishing her 100 fly and she was so excited. She swam it alone and said the pool was surrounded by her teammates cheering her on. After being out of the water completely for 8 weeks and only having 1 week of kicking and 1 week of workouts she is doing fabulous. I'm really excited for swim season to start and can't wait to see where she ends up by the end of the year. I think I may be making the drive to Long Beach for CIF in May!

You can read about her 100 fly from her perspective on her blog.