Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions
The Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions (SMOC for short) was a lot of fun. The first day I swam the 100 free in a 53.6 in the morning and swam on a UCSC relay at night which took fourth splitting a 53.3. On Saturday, I swam the 200 breast making the A finals and finishing sixth in a 2:21.5. The last day I swam the 100 breast finishing tenth in a 1:04.9. The breaststrokes were a little slower than I wanted, but I am working a lot on technique and hopefully the changes will show up soon.
The weekend I got to stay with some former Stanford teammates with Patrick Simpkins and current Stanford senior Michael Zoldos. It was also great to catch up with them, John Criste, Chad La Tourette, and the Zaich’s at a great dinner Saturday night and throughout the meet.
Find full results link here:
I will be training for the next week in San Diego on the Coronado Island with my racing group from UCSC. It is a beautiful spot in sunny California. I love training outside and will look to get some good work in this week before we start tapering and focusing on more speed work.
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Hawaii Recap and looking forward to Summer Racing
Here are some photos from the Hawaii Training camp:
All images are courtesy of Rick Pelletier. Check out all his pictures at Rick Pelletier’s Flickr here.
Sorry it has been a while since I last posted. I have taken some time updating my website so feel free to check out the other page links above too. More updates will follow as I get some more time this summer too. I was in Hawaii again for a training camp for a couple of weeks in May where we did some heavy training.
It was great to swim outdoors again in the sunshine. I really enjoyed being able to get away and fully concentrate on swimming again with my team. We did some really heavy training and did the most meters in a week that I have ever done going around 90 km in one week and totaling around 155,000 meters overall. This included some long three-hour 10,000 meter practices. It was really important during this time to recover in between practices as much as possible so you were ready for the next practice. My freestyle got a lot better during the camp and the results showed at a meet the week after where I went a best time in the 100 free in 53.40 seconds. Hopefully building this solid training base during May will lead to great things this summer in July!
I will be heading down to Mission Viejo, California for the Meet of Champions where I will be competing from June 24-26. This will be my big test of the summer, so I am getting prepared to swim fast before summer nationals.
Paul Kornfeld 