The first day back at swim team!

September 17, 2008

The first day back at swim team!

We had a nice break from swim team, 3 glorious weeks (for me anyway!) without driving to swim team. Bryce went absolutely bonkers without swimming. He begged for me to take him over and let him swim laps "Just once mom, pleeeeease!" I took him and let him swim laps for a while last week. I am so nice, LOL. Bryce was especially thrilled to go back to swim, since he got bumped up to the gold team, woot woot!!! I am amazed that he's already on gold. It's only been a little more than 1 year since he started swimming. He is way better of a swimmer than all of us. He'd beat me in a race any day! The demands of gold team are much higher. Their warm up (for the very first day back from 3 weeks off) was a 500 meter swim. For those of you non-swimmer, a typical lap pool is 25 meters long, so that works out to be 20 laps just as a warm up!! It's good for him though, he needs the exercise :-)

Swim team pretty much consumes our afternoons 3 days a week. Last year Blake and Marlie took a few sessions of swimming lessons too keep themselves occupied, while Bryce swam. So this season, I decided to start Blake on the swim team as well. He was so excited to try out, and made it on the novice team. I figure he's at the pool all the time, he might as well swim too. It will be a good thing for Blake. He's never had a lot of stamina. Swim team will help him build

endurace and strength. He was so tired the first day of practice. Todays practice was better, but

he was still exhausted.