Build A Better Mousetrap.........

and they shall come. And they did! 30 Masterful swimmers enjoyed their races on Wednesday with lots of short stuff to keep the sprinters happy. There was 25 Fly or Free, 50 Back, 50 Breast and 100 Free. Some great times were swum and 7 swimmers who had swum the 100 free last round managed to lower their own times and lower their own record or break records set by others in the previous round.

In the Womens there were four (4) record changes as follows:

25-29 age group  Angela Tomlinson reduced her own record from 1.24.32 to 1.22.31
40-44 age group  Elizabeth Hayes reduced her own record from 1.17.47 to 1.15.11
55-59 age group Avy Judelson set a new mark of 1.20.19 from old record of 1.44.15
70-74 age group Cathy Fagerstroem reduced her own record from 2.03.99 to 1.54.28

In the mens there were three record changes as follows:

45-49 age group Michael Harrison reduced his own record from 1.14.60 to 1.09.30
55-59 age group Ron Tomlinson set a new mark of 1.09.47 from the old record of 1.22.70.
65-69 age group Barry Davies reduced his own record from 1.39.77 to 1.38.99 

Checkout the Overall Results page to see what times were swum by whom and then have a look at the Records pages to see who holds what records.

There are now 33 different club record holders. The most hotly contested category is the men's 50-54 age group which now has 5 men holding records. Myself, I think they are just being far too nice to each other and sharing it around. Sharing is caring, so I've heard. Maybe they have a pact; one for me, one for you.....

The next race night is pegged for Wednesday 4th May, 7pm. If you are not the sprinting type and it takes you 20 minutes just to get up on the start blocks then you will like what's in store because I believe it might be the 400 Free (or IM if you are fast enough to finish an IM before 8pm bowls around). This is to be confirmed yet though. So if you like the longer stuff then start dusting off those enduro-goggles.