US Nationals at Stanford University
I will complete my long course season this week at the 2011 USA Swimming National Championships here at Stanford University from August 2-6. This meet is a bit of a homecoming for me seeing how I spent 5 years at Stanford for my college years and one year after working. When I saw US Nationals was at Stanford, I knew I had to go. This will be another chance to swim fast and a great chance to see a bunch of friends in the Stanford area.
I will be representing Team Canada at the meet, but I still feel like I am representing Stanford at this pool. Since this meet is a selection meet for the US team for Pan American Games, they are not allowing foreigners (those whose sport nationality is for another country and thus cannot represent the US internationally) to swim in their finals. So, I will just be competing in the morning preliminary heats. I will be swimming some relays for Team Canada in the finals Tuesday and Saturday night.
Schedule:
Tuesday: 100 breast (1:03.46), 400 free relay (3:24.44)
Thursday: 100 breast time trial
Saturday: 200 breast, 400 medley relay
Prelims begin at 9 am PT, Finals at 6 pm PT
Live Results: http://www.swmeets.com/Realtime/LC%20Nationals/2011/
Tickets: click here
US Nationals coverage and webcast: click here
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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Paul Kornfeld 