Last Saturday was interesting - I swum in my first ever kid's club meet! For reasons I won't bore you with I got asked to be part of the "Open" section for the Buxton team in their first Crusader meet of the year. The Crusader league is a small two division league for "midlands" (ish) based clubs, and Buxton are in division 2.

Now I only started entering masters comps last year, so it was interesting to see "grass roots" competition first hand. It was also nice to see a number of the young kids I periodically help teach (and I think it helps re-inforce the swimmer-coach bond for them to see me swimming and taking it seriously). And it's scary being definitely the oldest swimmer there! I think our male open team were aged: 39, 33, 26 and 17 - well it's an open competition.

I was entered in the 4 x 50M medlay relay, the 4 x 50M free relay and the last (proper) event the 100 fly. In the relays I swum the freestyle legs (anchored the medlay, and lead the free). I really enjoyed it and swam the best I've done this year:

4 x 50M medlay relay, 50M free anchor leg: 28.6s
4 x 50M free relay, lead leg: 28.6s
100M fly 1:10.30s

28.6 is 2+ seconds quicker than anything else this year and 1:10.3 is a PB by 3 seconds:)