Time Trials

The girl's swim team had time trials this past Saturday. It was a good opportunity for them to experience what a swim meet will be like...cold and early!

Baileigh swam in all four heats...freestyle, breast stroke, backstroke and butterfly (despite the fact she can't do the stroke she wanted to try).

Mckenna is truly still learning to swim and gets nervous in the pool if pushed outside her comfort zone (which means near the stairs in the shallow end and on her tummy, not her back). Although there were a few tears on Saturday morning she was a trooper and swam in three of the heats. There were a lot of kids in her age group that panicked and wouldn't even get in the pool. It didn't help that it was 7am and cool outside and the water was freezing after a week of rain!

Brooke giving her sister a congratulations hug after she finished her final heat.

In general the girls seem to be enjoying this experience. They like the practices as they are with their friends and a lot like swimming lessons. Right now they practice after school from 5:00-6:00 and once school is done they'll practice from 9:15-10:15 which is reasonable. The thing I'm still in denial about is the fact that we have to be at the pool for meets at 6:00am for warm up. Then the other team has 30 minutes for warm up and meets start at 7am. Thankfully this weekend is a home meet so the pool is two minutes from our house...but when it is an away meet that means we may have to leave our house at 530am on a Saturday!!!!!!!! Insane. I still can't believe I agreed to this, or that the girls are doing it voluntarily!