It's unfortunate, really. I loved the pool that the University of Iowa built, it's just a shame that the airflow engineers seemed to have missed their mark. I can't imagine that it's easy to keep clear air flowing with athletes on deck, but the air was poor when we arrived Wednesday. It wasn't nearly as bad at Minnesota has been, but again, that's relative. On the drive down, I noticed only one helicopter that was spraying a cornfield.
Already, I've seen two small planes buzzing over the crops — and right over our heads. If I was driving, I'm sure I would be a bit unnerved by the planes flying right toward the car at low-altitude. Apparently, it's a popular thing in this state for farmers to own a crop-dusting plane. I guess that would explain why the local arena football team is called the Iowa Barnstormers. I meant to review my French I materials before it begins, during this trip. That never happened, nor is it going to between here and home.
Sleeping does sound good though. If you wanted to draw this into some bigger story, I think that would be a good way to summarize it. Road trips make swimmers sleepy. Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to make these last few hours fitting of a typical swimming road trip.
So, goodnight! Made the Cut! It's been a week since I returned from Iowa City now. On that trip home — as you may have determined — I found a way of detaching myself from my swimming. Due to a conflict with that French class I mentioned earlier, I was unable to participate in the Thursday and Friday prelims of the meet.
And due to the fact that my normal three-day taper had turned into nearly three weeks leading into the meet, a smaller event program seemed the only hope I would have for surviving my shortened meet. Finally, with the history of my lackluster swims on over-taper, I figured there was no hope of swimming well.
My one and only goal prior to the meet was to have fun. As long as I accomplished that, I was willing to call it a successful meet. The swim felt strong and smooth at the time, and I was astounded to have gone I texted a few coaches, telling them something to the extent of, " Might have two more shots at Trials. You see, I had mentally considered my season to be over before we left Iowa City. I even called coach Paul Graham and began discussing long course meet opportunities that would fall during the upcoming NCAA season.
I slept on that relay split, and woke up the next morning tired and not looking forward to a long day at the pool. Judging from the timeline, I could see that there was a three-hour discrepancy between the 9 a. I groaned, and figured that going out for a good breakfast would be the best way to pass the time. Teammate Brent Schreibel and myself went to a local diner the stereotypical breakfast location, run by a Greek family with a seven-page breakfast menu to buy some time and some food.
I gorged on Polish sausage, toast, hash browns and scrambled eggs. Needless to say, we didn't take as long as we'd hoped to eat: it was only after paying the check. Of course, there was a Dollar Tree in the adjacent strip mall — and that's where we went.
We got back to the pool and went to the locker rooms to cut them out and put them on. An hour later, we weren't yet finished and we realized that there was only half an hour until we swam both of us were in the breast , and neither of us had our suits on yet. I was nervous for the race only for the reason that I was so short on time. Plus it was hot at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, which meant I was sweating, which also meant that putting on my size 26 was even more difficult than usual.
Somehow, I managed to make everything work and get behind the blocks before my race. I could see that there were the usual slow times in the morning heats, and I wasn't really worried about making it back for a second swim I'm not that cocky, but I was the second seed, the defending state champion, and I can't remember the last time that I wasn't top-8 at this meet. I just wanted to make the morning swim as comfortable as possible. And even though I was rushed, even though I didn't care about my time that much, I had to remember to have fun.
So I let out a loud craw toward the team bench an inside joke, but something that must have commanded some awkward looks from the crowd and swimmers. I hit the water and felt amazing. I was sitting very high in the water and was able to keep my stroke really long through the first I went out in 19 strokes for a Coach Tom Coons has been telling me all season that my first 50 meters is always my strength, though; my last 10 strokes are the weak part of my race.
That very relaxed first 50 made for that near perfect second I took 24 strokes on the way back, splitting I was amazed, because I was expecting to see a high or low at best. I played around and managed to get my Trials cut. In the locker room afterward, I ran into Tom Miazga.
He asked me, "How does it feel to have the monkey off your back? I didn't know what it felt like to have a monkey on my back. I never got to the point where I had any sort of monkey on my back, not at this meet at least. Some things just come when you least expect them. Not just that, though. Having the cut out of the way, I was free to mess around as much as I wanted in finals. My only goal left was to defend that title, and even that wasn't something I wanted to do seriously.
During the week between sectionals and state, my teammates and I joked around about how "You Make My Dreams," by Hall and Oates, from Days of Summer would make a great walkout song. The meet management wasn't allowing the top seeds to pick their respective songs, though. They agreed and I didn't even need to bribe them. I went crazy on that march. If I didn't know the others in my heat so well, they may have thought I was the cockiest guy at the meet.
I jumped and danced in tandem — and across the pool — from teammate Cody Roller for the entire march. Ashland University values the individual student and offers a unique educational experience that combines the challenge of strong, applied academic programs with a faculty and staff who build nurturing relationships with their students. Posted Tuesday March 20, at am by Ashland University.
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