At the recent Inverclyde Masters Swimming Meet, held at the Waterside Leisure Centre, Greenock, Jan Price swam an extremely busy schedule of 13 events. Representing South Mainland, Jan was one of a very small number of women competing in the 50-54 age band.
As such, placings were fairly irrelevant, while more significant was the target of matching times she swam in the competition when she previously took part in 2007. Her first event was the 800metres freestyle on the Friday evening. Pacing was excellent throughout, and with enough energy left to finish with a fast final 50 metres, she touched in 12.13.11, a new personal best time and a chunky 10 seconds faster than in 2007.
Saturday’s programme started at 9am with the 200m freestyle, which resulted in a 5 second PB. For the rest of the day it was one race after another, a mixture of 50m and 100m races in each stroke plus 200m breaststroke and Jan’s favourite event the 200m Individual Medley which she swam close to her PB time and 4 seconds faster than 2 years ago.
With little recovery time between races, some events were particularly tough going; the last length of the 100m butterfly was a near death experience and her one time strongest event, the 200m breaststroke was swam in survival mode. By 5pm even the normally easy 100m IM, the very last event, was unusually painful!
Despite this, and although no more personal best times were achieved during the day another 4 races; 50m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 50m backstroke and 100m freestyle resulted in times a touch faster than 2007.
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