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2007 South Central Zones meet

Well, my three failed attempts in the '60's (at learning how to swim) and my two recent years of "personal swimming" and my three more years of swimming on the UT Masters team have all led up to my first chance to swim in public.

I'll be swimming 3/23/07 at the 2007 South Central Zone Short Course Masters Championships, in Houston, Tx. I'll be swimming the 100yd IM (individual medley), 50 yd breaststroke, and 200yd breaststroke. If you find the "psych sheet" on the previous link, you can find my name and see that based on my seeding I'm not exactly going to "go home with all the hardware". :-) ..but... as they say... sometimes the key in Life is to make it to the Starting Line... not just the Finish Line.

A "Masters swim team" is a local chapter of the national swim club, United States Masters Swimming, which was started in the 1970's. The United States is partitioned into several zones, and Austin, TX is in the South Central Zone. Austin has several Masters swim teams, and my team swims at what people in the "swimming world" refer to as "Yankee Stadium". The Texas Swim Center is on the campus of UT-Austin, and is reknowned to be one of the five fastest pools in the United States; needless to say, I'm sure I help bring down the average ;-)

Posted at 10:51AM Mar 22, 2007 by Andrew Rutz in Swim  |  Comments[0]