Missouri Grand Prix

Here are some pictures from the end of my Hawaii trip from our training and on our one off-day where I got to go to the North Shore for some relaxation. All trip, we had been talking about doing a 100 meter dash just to see how fast we could go, and finally at the end of the trip we raced from a three-point stance where I went a 12.20. After two months of training though, it is finally time to race again

I will be competing again this coming weekend at the 2011 Missouri Long Course Grand Prix. The meet will be held at the University of Missouri from February 18-20 in Columbia, MO.

Training has been going pretty well as I have been focusing more on long course training. I did 10 practices last week totaling around 60,000 meters for the week. On Thursday, I participated in an interesting study with the Canadian Sports Performance Centre that was measuring our force created on our starts. There were four measurement pads on top of the blocks where each pad would measure force created by a foot on the block in the vertical and horizontal direction. I haven’t seen the full results yet, but it was a great tool to help optimize the most horizontal force as possible.

I will be swimming the 100 breast on Friday, 200 breast on Saturday, and 200 IM on Sunday. I will racing against America’s top breaststrokers in Gangloff, Alexandrov, Titus, Burckle, Japan’s Ryo Tateishi, & Brazil’s Felipe Lima. I am looking forward to seeing some friends and old teammates at the meet as well. It will be my first meet since the SC World Championships, so I am really excited to race again in preparation for Canadian Spring Nationals at the end of March. Results can be found by clicking this link during the meet.