Commentary by Casey Barrett
It’s such a delicate time. U.S. Olympic Trials start in six weeks. It’s almost taper time. Maybe the bulky sprinters have already started resting. Wherever you are in your training cycle, there’s not much time left. Every race at every meet from here on out carries added weight.
There’s an irresistible urge to read into the results coming in. That’s not always a healthy thing for the athletes and coaches to do. There are infinite examples of speedy in-season times not always translating to the shave. And there are just as many examples where slow sluggish times did not predict the crazy fast excellence to come. Every body reacts to rest differently. As each body ages, the vagaries of needed rest change with it. Beware of reading too much into these things.
But how can a bystander and a fan resist? When you see Anthony Ervin drop a 21.98 and a 49.30 at the Charlotte Grand Prix, just a few weeks after arriving at SwimMAC, how can you not think that the Dave Marsh Magic is at it again? Four years ago he helped transform Kara Lynne Joyce into the confident sprint star she’d always been, and in Omaha in 2012 she raced onto her third Olympic team in the 50 free. Suddenly, Ervin seems poised to do the same.
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