Swimmers take your mark

Cannon and London have both joined the swim team at the YMCA and have been practicing hard for over a month.  Saturday was their first competition - a swim meet at the Y in Puyallup!

Both boys chose to swim the backstroke, freestyle and breast stroke (I mean, really, who swims the butterfly anyways?)  The good news is that we were there on time at 12:30 and geared up to go in their new "jammers" (no picture, I didn't want to embarrass them too much).  The bad news is that by 2:00 they were still on event 11 and London's first event wasn't until #31.  Ugh.

I was feeling a little restless and harried by this point so Emmy and I went outside to check on Mick who was in the car.  Outside it was blustery, spitting rain and cool.  It was at this point that I felt better that my kids had picked swimming since at least I got to stay warm and dry unlike those poor soccer parents huddled under their blankets and umbrellas!

Back inside the pace of the meet had picked up and soon London was swimming his first event - the 50 meter backstroke.  He buzzed through it and came in first (although they weren't announcing winners...)  Next came Cannon's back which he did great in too.  Steadily after that I watched them swim their hearts out doing breast and then free.  They did great but were tired and cold by the end of it all.  I'm so proud of the boys - way to go guys!

That's London leading the pack in backstroke.

Here comes Cannon with his backstroke.