Lately I’ve practically lived in water. The last two posts now have both, basically, been on water and now here I am to give you another water related post. I had a swim meet over the past few days, which is why I haven’t posted all that recently. The meet ran from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon not, of course, non-stop, but from about 7:30-11:30 am and then 1:00-4:45 pm. In the mornings at swim meets the kids from ages 5-12 swim and in the afternoon ages 13-(sometimes 11) and up swim. Certain kinds of events (always the shorter ones) kids can’t swim once they reach a certain age, and a few events show up when you reach a certain age. There are a ton of small details to swim meets that I’m not going to explain (unless one of you has a question) instead I’m going to give you the basic idea. Ahead of time swimmers pick the races that they want to swim, and turn in the entries to their coach, who sends them to the officials along with your time for that race. A few weeks later you show up on either Friday, Saturday, and/or Sunday, check in, warm up, and then you swim your races. Trying to drop time, screaming yourself hoarse, getting a sunburn or tan, and nearly missing your own race because you were cheering on a friend, is just part of the fun.

Okay, I’ve said enough I took some pictures on Friday evening that I’ll show you after I tell you what I swam:

Friday:

1500 Free (60 laps of freestyle)

Saturday:

200 Back (8 laps backstroke)

Sunday:

200 IM (2 laps butterfly, 2 laps backstroke, 2 laps breastroke, 2 laps freestyle)

200 Fly (8 laps butterfly)

100 Back (4 backstroke)

400 Free (16 laps freestyle)

Now on to the pictures!