Swim Meet

Mallory swam in her first HS swim meet for this season. The first meet was last week, but she had not been cleared to swim yet by the trainer who was treating her previously sprained ankle. Last year she swam a few individual 50 or 100m events and lots of 200 or 400m relays (where she swam one 50 or 100m leg). Tonight, after just four days of practice, in the long distance lanes, she swam her first 500m freestyle event. This is the longest event of the whole meet and take about 15 minutes or more. She didn't really want to start out swimming that long of an event, she thought she may have to swim the 200m event, but didn't say no when she was asked by the coach. What a trooper. She did great, her strokes looked smooth through out the entire time. The coach said she did great too. She also swam two other events, the third event was a 50m leg in a 200m relay, which took place just one event after her 500m event. After she was done, she said that her arms hurt a little bit. No wonder!