Three days to go until the 2009 Age Group Championships kick off at K2, Crawley.

Check back during the weekend for all the latest updates from the pool, live results and (hopefully) live pictures.

If you are not intending to swim this coming weekend, don't forget to withdraw. Failure to withdraw will cost you/your club £10 per event.

Withdrawal forms may be downloaded from the website and will of course be available on the day. If you want to withdraw before Saturday, send us an e-mail. Please include your ASA registration number and date of birth as "proof of identity".

I'm not sure if we can do anything at this stage - depends if the required computers have been packed up yet!  I'll see if we can do something.

I will try to load something this evening covering the whole championships. Currently, I don't have access to the master database.

Well done to the people who have e-mailed in withdrawals. All of you have given me DoBs and Registration Numbers. Very helpful, takes some of the pressure off tomorrow morning.

Just off to Staples to stock up on consumables, paper etc and most importantly DUCK TAPE. Looking forward to an exciting (and warm weekend).

There's no need to sign in - swimmers just need to report to the competitor's stewards at the appropriate time.

You should be able to collect your coache's passes from a table on poolside on Saturday morning.

Draft programme for the complete event is now on the web. Follow the full event information link.

Actually Chris had a lamb steak. Maybe tomorrow for the curry.

As you'll be able to see on the webcam the pool is slowly starting to fill as we had towards the start of warm up at 9am.

We're now set up for live results - you'll need to refresh the page if you don't see any Results.

Slight technical issues after the first heat but we think we're OK now and on to heat 2.

Around 50 of you out there following this competition. Lets have a few more comments.

We've come to the end of the first event.  Now onto 22 heats of 100 freestyle.

Interesting leg suit for Cameron Fry from Herne Bay - good skulls!

Still going through the 100 frees.  Getting to the fastest heats where medals will be decided now.

Moving on to the Girls 100 fly.

We're still working on getting full results of previous events loaded - hopefully they'll be up soon.

Full results for the first three events are now up.  From that you should be able to see the finalist for the 200 IM (top 8 in each age group).

You may need to refresh if you don't see a link to Session 1 results.

2/3 of the way through the 200 Back.

After that it's the finals of the Girls 200 IM.  There are seperate finals for each age group in these championships.

The final heat of the 200 Backstroke is in the water.  Can they beat the times set in previous heats?

The answer is yes - a close finish but Matthew Masters wins the age 14 in 2:19.98.

NOW - on to the finals.

Girls Age 10 200IM: Zara Ryan leads after 50m with Sophie Waller close behind.  Ryan extends her lead in the second 50 but the breaststroke leg is all important in a medley.

Less than 1/2 second between Ryan and Waller with 50 to go - a sprint to the finish.  And Zara Ryan holds it, Sophie Waller second and Kelly Small third.

Girls Age 11 200IM: Natasha Johnson lead for the first 100 but again the breaststoke proved vital with Hannah Dry from Guildford coming through to claim victory.  Leah Picillo 2nd.

Girls Age 12 200IM: Emma Day leads at the half way stage and it looks like no one can catch her on the final 100.  Emma wins with team mate Tilly Prowse taking silver.  A close fight for third with Nicole Dollery just missing out to Lily Glover by just 0.02 seconds.

Girls Age 13 200IM: All eight swimmers get off to a good start in the last final of this session.  Chloe Fulford leads after the fly leg but at the half way stage there's nothing in it.  Eleanor Dolan just leading in lane 4.

As they turn into the final 50 there's still nothing to choose between the top 3 but Dolan touches in first place, Emily Ard second and Chloe Bean taking bronze.

All that excitement brings us to the end of the first session.  Time for a bite to eat.

Next warm up is 1:45 - then the relays kick off at 2:15pm.

We're about to get started with Session 2 of the championships.

This is a fairly short session - just 6 heats of relays.

As you can see, we have a different view of the pool for the next session.

Basingstoke Bluefins set the standard in heat 1 - 4:59.78.

Amersham have improved on that time in heat 2 - 4:57.37 is the time the teams in heat 3 need to aim for.

But Guilford City take the final heat and first position overall in a time of 4:46.99.  Second City of Oxford and 3rd place Windsor.

So onto the Boys 4x100 Freestyle Relay.

Basingstoke Bluefins lead for the first 200 but Atlantis overtake to take the first heat by less than a second in 4:08.45.

In heat 2 Black Lion lead for most of the race to improve the standard to 4:01.80.

Final heat: Bracknell and Wokingham finish in 3:56.79 ahead of Guildford City in 2nd and Milton Keynes in 3rd.

After this short session we will be taking another break for warm up until 3:45pm.

Just time to watch the first half of the FA Cup final in the bar if they start on time?

The pool is empty, ready for the start of session 3.

So as Everton and Chelsea head in for a half time break we kick off with Session 3.

FYI - we have 13 heats of Girls 400 Free and 10 heats of Boys 400 IM.  Then a few 100 backs to finish the session off.

So as we move into the third heat we have already had most of the 10 year olds - just two more to swim.  Ella Windle in this heat and Zara Ryan in heat 5.  Kelly Small currently leads the Age 10s in 5:17.00 - faster than Ella's (converted) entry time but slower than Zara's.

Kelly Small hangs on to the lead there with just one more 10 year old to swim.

The next few heats see the bulk of the 11 year olds.

Heat 5 is where the 10 year old age group will be decided.  Zara Ryan is ahead of Kelly Small's 200m time but there's still plenty of time left for that to change!

But Zara holds her place to win the Age 10 400m Freestyle in 5:09.47.  Pretty good!

And our thoughts can turn to the 11 year old age group with just 6 swimmers left to go in heats 6, 7 and 9.

After heat 6 it's Angharad Eburne in 5:04.19.  The entry times suggest Ellie Hoar from Portsmouth will finish well ahead of the rest but the rest of the medals are likely to be decided in heat 7.

After heat 7 there's no change at the top of the age 11 with jsut Ellie Hoar to swim.

But don't forget that it's the overall BAGCAT points which matter most in these championships so everyone swimming the 400m event gets their distance points on the board.

And as expected Ellie Hoar takes gold in the 11 year age group in a time of 4:59.77.  Another very good swim.

As heat 12 enters the pool it seems worth pointing out that both the 12 and 13 year age groups will be decided in the next and final heat.

The swimmers in the final heat are aiming to beat 4:37.69 for the 13 year olds and 4:46.16 for the 12 year olds.

With 100 to go Chloe Bean looks to be heading to victory in the 13 age group - and she does in a new regional record time of 4:29.68.

Kristina Neves wins in the 12 year old category in 4:37.96.

On to the Boys 400IM.  Although we've already seen most of the 10 year olds in the first two heats we'll have to wait until heat 7 to see the last - Oliver Kincart with an entry time over 30 seconds ahead of the next fastest in the age group.

With 5 11 year olds left to go in heats 5 and 6 the age group is currently headed by Adam Milne in 5:43.98.

Aaron Lloyd has a target of 5:32.71 to win the Age 11, but at the half way stage he is .08 outside Ruben King's split.  Aaron doesn't manage to pull it back but his time of 5:37.75 is good enough for a bronze medal and national qualifying.  Well done to Rubens King who takes gold.

Just in case you've forgotten - we've now had the last 10 year old.  Oliver Kincart wins the gold more than 30 seconds ahead of Ryan Smith in 2nd and Jordan Brett in 3rd.  An outstanding swim there for a 10 year old.

Heat 8 saw the last of the 12 year olds - Ben Levart finishing narrowly ahead of Thomas Gregson in a close fought race.

And on to the final heat to see the conclusion of both the 13 and 14 age group.

In the 13 years there's just Ewan Laing aiming to beat 5:27.24 while the rest go head-to-head for the 14 year medals.

As with the girl's event the main focus is the overall BAGCATs with this event contributing to the Medley category (unsurprisingly!).

Laing does beat the previous best to take gold in the 13 year age group.

It's Matthew Masters leading in the 14 age group at the half way stage but Neil Redman storms up the outside on the breaststroke leg to lead by 7m with 2 lengths to go.  Matthew comes back strongly on the freestyle but Neil Redman holds on to win gold by just over 1/2 a second.

On to the 100 back which come quicker so less time for web updates!

The final heat of the event brings us to the end of today's programme.

We'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning - 8:15am warm up, starting at 9am.