Catching up: Swim results

We moved one week before our final swim meet, Championship Meet, and hardly had the energy to finish, much less finish strong. We were staying at a hotel that week, which was 45 minutes away from our practice pool and decided that the kids would have to get in their practices at the hotel since we didn't have any desire to drive 45 minutes to practice all week in the midst of packing, closing, painting and moving and unpacking.

The girls were fairly consistent all summer long in their swimming and ended the season right about where they started with their times. Both swam very well and took time off their IM's which look hard to me!

The boys made huge improvements, especially Little E, with CR breaking 30 seconds on his freestyle at championship with a time of 28.98. Little E swam the whole 25 yards without touching the rope for the first time at championship and went from starting the season with a 3 minute swim to finishing with a time of 1:22.47! It was so fun to watch him improve and learn to swim this year! We almost didn't let him try it, but I am so glad we did!

In addition, CR also was the high point winner for the boys in his age group on our team. He didn't always enjoy swimming and would rather have been playing baseball, but once he saw all the medals and ribbons he won, he changed his mind and said he wanted to swim again next year!