Lincoln Vulcans Open Meet Result

Had a good day on Saturday at the Vulcan's open meet, spaced my swims out over the day, had a good laugh with my mates, all was good :)

Because of how and what we are doing in our training at the moment, I didn't expect to make any huge headway on any of my times. I got slight pb's on most of the events with a good 6 sec one on my 400 free which gives me my first regional qualifying time for next year as a 14 year old (i'm 13). I've never had a regional qt in the first month of the new season with over 6 months before the closing date of the Midlands.

I just pb'd on my 200 breaststroke and managed to get a bronze which was a nice surprise!. My mum +Sue Davies video'd the race with the iPad and did some fancy graphics (which is below). It was nice that I won my heat for a change....lane 9 is horrible place to swim with all of the style and  turn judges watching me!

Below is the little medal I won for the 200 breast in my last event of the day :)

Had a great day yesterday with my mate Simon (who's also a swimmer). We played golf and went to the gym at night. I was back at training this morning at 5.15am and i'll be going later on this evening at 5.30pm, can't wait!

Braunstone Sprints 3 Gold's and a Silver!

I had a great day on Sunday at the Braunstone Sprints Open Meet, it was good to spend all day with my Sharks mates, hadn't seen a few of them for a while. Got some good times, would have liked to have dropped a second on my 50 free and 50 fly as I've been working on my fly, lots have improved but I want the times to show it. It'll be my last Braunstone Sprints so it was good to finish well.

I came 2nd in the boy's aggregate time by just under a second, it was my fly and free that cost me first place but I'm very happy with what i've got as I'm not really a sprinter!

50 Back 33.74 Pos 1

100 Free 01:02.41 Pos 1 (mqt)

100 IM 01:13.46 Pos 1

50 Breast 38.61 Pos 2

50 Fly 35.32 Pos 4

50 Free 29.97 Pos 5

Aggregate Time: 04:33.51 (Pos 2)

I'm on twitter too @swimmerjd :)

A few of my medals

Thought i'd upload a few shots from one of my medal shelves. This one shows my boxes for my Speedo Fastskin³ Elite jammers, Fastskin³ Elite goggles, Arena Powerskin R-Evo+ jammers and my Arena Cobra goggles that I use for training.

It also shows my medals from the City of Leicester open meet, the Coventry open meet, some from the County Championships, one from the Leicester Sharks and various others.

The one below are my medals from the Nuneaton and Bedworth Spring Qualifying Meet where I had my best meet ever....I won 4 Golds and 1 Silver and got into my first final!