Beijing Olympics Video

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaupt9_swimming-video-1_sport?search_algo=2
watch this great video of the Beijing Olympics between Micheal Phelps and Ryan Lochte

My Favroite Olympic Swimmer

My favorite swimmer in the olympics is Micheal Phelps even though he is retiring at a young age he is still my favorite because he is the most decorated olympian ever! I see Micheal Phelps as a role model to me and even though I may not be a swimming prodigy like him I still hope some day to swim for my favorite college UNC and if I'm good enough maybe go to even a higher level of swimming.

The Hardest event

Usually in swimming people think the 500 freestyle is the hardest event but I am going to tell you from experience it's not. The hardest event is by far the 400I.M. because it involves all four strokes and the hardest stroke which is butterfly is first and if you've ever swam a 100 butterfly you would know how demanding it is in terms of upperbody muscles. The 500 is not as hard because when you swim the 500 you either keep a good pace so your not as tired by the end of the race or if your really up to it you can sprint the whole 20 lengths of the pool. The reason you can sprint it is because you get a huge adrenaline rush and your body gets very numb so you can't even feel a thing.

My Favorite stroke

My Favorite stroke of all time is breast stroke. Even though it is not my best stroke I still love to swim breast stroke at any meet in any event. When I was thirteen years old (roughly three years ago) I broke the swim team record for the 13-14 100 breast stroke with a time of 1:25:06. Unfortunately though the next year my record was broken by a kid who could probably make it all the way to nationals.
 Breast stroke and freestyle are not the only events I swim now though just two weeks ago I swam a 200 I.M. and broke my best time by 20 seconds with a time of 2:39:08!

I chose to write this blog because I am a swimmer and I have been swimming since I was ten. I am now fifteen and I would like to share my views with different people about swimming. I swim on two teams the West Suburban Blue Waves and my high school team the Dover Sherborn Raiders. Last year was my freshman year of high school. That year my coach made me swim a 500 freestyle probably one of the longest and hardest events for anybody to swim. When I first swam this event at my first meet I honestly thought I was going to puke in the pool because I was so nervous about swimming this event and it was the first time I had ever done a 500 in a swim meet. When I first started swimming I didn’t like it and I was swimming on and off seasons between basket ball and swimming. After a few years though the basket ball program I was in stopped and I committed most of my time to swimming which was when I decided that I might as well stick with the sport and now I love swimming. This blog however is not only going to be about just me it is also going to be about my swim teams, swimmers I swim with, and Olympic swimming. I made this blog to share my views and my love of swimming with anybody who wants to learn more about the sport.