New Albany swim meet

I haven't been getting much exercise in these days.  I ran on Wednesday this week and put in a 30:40 5K.  My miles were 9:33, 9:42, and 10:19.  I walked a little during the second and third mile.

Today I played 90 minutes of hard volleyball.  We played two teams and won against the first but lost against the second.  I was running all over the place and felt a step behind all the time; out of shape, no doubt.

The big sports news for us today, though, was the swim meet.  Both kids swam in a B meet, which means the participants' best times have to be ABOVE a BB time to swim.  Therefore, all of their friends who have qualified for State or are close, couldn't swim in this meet.  The results of the meet are on the New Albany Aquatics Club web site and a summary of the Orr performance is below.

Jason is age 9 in the 9/10 age group and beat all other 9 year olds in every event except IM:

• 1st in 200 Free Relay (swam first leg)
• 2nd in 100 Free
• 4th in 50 Free
• 4th in 50 Back
• 4th in 100 IM (another 9 year old beat him by .1 second)

Val is 12 in the 11/12 age group and was seeded first in her 4 individual events - and she delivered:

• 1st in 50 Free (by 3+ seconds)
• 1st in 50 Breast
• 1st in 100 Breast (by 2+ seconds)
• 1st in 200 IM (by 16 seconds - really, 16)
• 2nd in the Free Relay

The blocks were really low and the pool and air were quite warm, so it wasn't a really fast pool today.  Even so, Jason beat his personal best in the 100 IM by almost 2 seconds.  Val slightly bested her times in the 50 Free and 200IM.