Missouri Grand Prix - Sunday Scratch

Ryan scratched the only event he was entered in today at the Missouri Grand Prix...the 100 free. Hope everything is OK.

Don't know when Ryan is swimming again, but the Florida Spring Senior Championships are scheduled for February 25-28 in Orlando. He swam in this meet last year so maybe he'll enter again this year.

Missouri Grand Prix Finals - Saturday, Feb. 13

Ryan swam in the finals last night and did well, particularly in the 100 back.

Here are the results:

50m free

  1 Hayden, Brent       22.56
2 Kishida, Masayu     22.77
3 Copeland, William   22.85  
4 Burnett, Simon      23.33 
5 Clark, Bennett      23.41  
6 Lochte, Ryan S      23.50  
7 Weber-Gale, Garrett 23.69   
8 Cambindo, Juan      23.91
100m back 

1 Thoman, Nichola  54.40
2 Lochte, Ryan S   54.81
3 Russell, David   55.32
4 Janusaitis, Vyt  55.94
5 Pereira, Thiago  56.64
6 Hawes, Matthew   57.04
7 Konarzewski, Ja  57.57
8 Schirk, Patrick  57.67

What I liked about the 100 back was that Ryan's last 50 was faster
than anyone else's...27.70. 

Sunday prelims - 100m free.  Heat 6, lane 4.  Watch live
on www.swimnetwork.com.

Missouri Grand Prix Prelims - Saturday, Feb. 13

After skipping last night's finals, Ryan swam in this morning's prelims in both the 50 free and 100 back. He qualified for tonight's "A" final in both. Here are the results:

50m free prelims
1 Hayden, Brent 23.04
2 Copeland, William 23.23
3 Kishida, Masayu 23.43
4 Burnett, Simon 23.58
5 Clark, Bennett 23.69
6 Lochte, Ryan 23.71
7 Weber-Gale, Garrett 23.90
8 Cambindo, Juan 23.93

100m back prelims

1 Thoman, Nicholas            56.43 
 2 Hawes, Matthew            57.32 
 2 Schirk, Patrick                57.32 
 4 Russell, David                 57.34 
 5 Lochte, Ryan S               57.64 
 6 Konarzewski, J               57.76 
 7 Pereira, Thiago               57.79 
 8 Janusaitis, Vyt               58.06

In the 100 back, Ryan really went for it on the first 50.  His split was 27.92, which was way faster
than everybody else.  Nick Thoman's first 50 was the next fastest at 28.66.

Like yesterday, I wanted to compare Ryan's times in these prelims with last year to see how he is
doing.  Last year Ryan didn't swim the 50 free.  In the 100 back, he had a 56.39 in the prelims and a
55.16 in the finals.  Faster last year but we'll see what happens in tonight's finals.

Finally an article about Ryan's knee injury, with the headline "Lochte busts a move, breaks his knee."
So happy someone from the press finally asked him about his injury.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/feb/13/lochte-busts-a-move-breaks-his-knee/

Ryan scratched Friday's finals

Just heard that Ryan scratched his finals for tonight's Missouri Grand Prix. He did really well in the prelims, so that should give him an indication of where he is at in training. Some people who are at the meet said it looked like he was limping after one of his races. Hopefully he is not injured!

Missouri Grand Prix - Prelim Results 2/12/10

The Missouri Grand Prix started today. Unfortunately Michael Phelps could not make it due to the blizzard on the east coast earlier this week. There are still a lot of Olympians there: Garrett Weber-Gale, Eric Shanteau, Ous Mellouli, Thiago Pereira and Ryan. Also, Nick Thoman from the national team is there.

Ryan swam the prelims for two events this morning, the 200m free and the 100m fly. He placed 4th in the 200m free and tied for 3rd in the 100m fly. Here are the results:

200m free prelims 2/12/10

1 Hayden, Brent 1:51.42
2 Johns, Brian 1:52.23
3 Di Giorgio, Ale 1:52.43
4 Lochte, Ryan 1:52.66
5 Mellouli, Ous 1:52.87

100m fly prelims 2/12/10

1 Kishida, Masayu 54.50
2 Russell, David 54.92
3 Janusaitis, Vyt 55.25
3 Lochte, Ryan 55.25
5 Pereira, Thiago 55.52

Also in the "A" final: Nick Thoman & Bradley Ally.

This is Ryan's first meet since last summer's world championships in Rome. For the sake of comparison, at last year's Missouri Grand Prix Ryan swam a 1:54.19 in the prelims of the 200 free and didn't make the "A" final. He swam a 55.08 in the 100 free and finished 2nd in the final. He seems to be on pace with his training from last year and we all know how well that turned out!

Finals start at 5:30 p.m. CST and can be watched live at www.swimnetwork.com

If you aren't following Ryan on twitter, you should. www.twitter.com/ryanlochte

Ryan Lochte will swim in Missouri Grand Prix - February 12-14, 2010

Finally some swimming to blog about!

Ryan is entered in the Missouri Grand Prix. This is a long course meet. The psych sheet can be found here: http://www.csctigersharks.org/hosted_meets/MGP2010/mogp_psych01.pdf

Ryan is competing in the 5 events:

Event 2 - 200m free - Friday, 2/12

• seeded 2nd behind Michael Phelps
• also entered: Ous Mellouli, Simon Burnett, Brent Hayden, Garrett Weber-Gale and Ryan's training partners Bradley Ally and Rex Tullius
  

Event 6 - 100m fly - Friday, 2/12

• seeded 4th behind Michael Phelps, Bradley Ally and Vitus Janusaitis
• also entered: Nick Thoman

Event 14 - 50m free - Saturday, 2/13

• seeded 12th
• also entered: GWG, Brent Hayden, Simon Burnett

Event 18 - 100m back - Saturday, 2/13

• seeded 3rd behind Nick Thoman and Michael Phelps
• also entered: Rex Tullius and Thiago Pereira

Event 28 - 100m free - Sunday, 2/14

• seeded 4th behind Brent Hayden, Michael Phelps and GWG
• also entered: Rex Tullius, Simon Burnett and Thiago Pereira

Interview with Ryan's Coach, Gregg Troy

This interview appeared today on the swimmingworld.tv website: http://www.swimmingworld.tv/episodes/2010/1/6/mss-gregg-troy.html

In the interview, Coach Troy says Ryan is back in the water and training following "minor" surgery, although he hasn't been able to do a breast stroke kick yet. Ryan will enter a meet in February. My guess is the Missouri Grand Prix. It will be great to see Ryan competing again, but mostly I'm happy for all the fans who are planning to go to that meet.