The weekend in St. Louis was pretty solid overall.  The girls had a good time together (I think).  They sabotaged my hotel room with mayo.  They sported some stylish Christmas sweaters.  They got in some good training.  They proved they could swim fast even while training very hard.  We got our Medley Relay qualified for State.  Boo made her 500 Free cut for State also. 

We swam 90 minutes in the morning before leaving for St. Louis, then another almost 2 hours before competing at MICDS.  We still had several swims that were season bests or lifetime bests.  We were also able to win all 3 relays, the 200 IM (Boo), the 50 Free (Maddie), the 100 Fly (Bobbles), and the 100 Back (K-Mezz).  We didn’t score out the meet, but we performed very well. 

The goal on Saturday was to see some different competition and simulate a Friday / Saturday swim meet.  The girls did well.  We started the meet off right with a State qualifying time in the 200 Medley Relay.  K-Mezz, Megan Pool, Bobbles and Maddie put together all 4 legs at once to make the time.  They dropped over 4 seconds off our previous season best.  The 200 frees were pretty good.  Heidi, Courtney & Britt all went season best times.  In the IM, Megan Miller & Ashlyn had bests.  Katie Mack & Gabby both went bests in the 50.  The divers did well in the morning.  Olivia was 4th and Kylie was 11th.  This was the first 11 dive meet for the girls.  In the fly, Katie Mack & Megan Imhoff had best times.  K-Mezz, Maddie, Heidi & Tasha all had solid times in the 100 free.  Courtney dropped another 5 seconds in the 500.  Our 200 free relays were pretty good.  We are going to have to work on our sprint free if we are going to qualify that relay for State.  Gabby, Britt & Mack all had good backstrokes.  In the breast, Megan Miller & Tasha had season bests.  The 400 free relays were ok.  I was hoping for a little faster times, but solid.  It is tough to be able to swim 8 times in less than 24 hours, but the girls did a good job.  In the end, they will have to be able to come up big when they are tired, so we still need to work on that. 

It is time for us to shift a little bit of our training and do a little more quality work and sprint work.  We will have a good winter break, continue to train hard and work towards our goal of fast swimming in February.