Swim Meet vs. Franklin YMCA

Carter had a swim meet against the Franklin YMCA yesterday afternoon.  This Y location was my favorite to go to last year because it was less crowded and the lifeguards weren't as strict about keeping kids within an arms length.

The Franklin Y have a very good and large team.  A lot of the kids seem to swim year round based on their amazing times.

Carter swam the same three races as last week.

First was freestyle.  Carter swam almost 3 seconds faster than last week with a time of 43.56 seconds.  However, the field was much larger and his teammates improved their times even more so Carter finished 10th.

Carter swam backstroke about half a second slower than last week with a time of 40.62 seconds.  And his place this time was 8th.

Carter was a little disappointed that he didn't place higher but brushed it off pretty quick.  He didn't swim as well as he has in practice but I know he's just trying too hard instead of focusing on his technique.

Carter also was in the freestyle relay.  His team improved their time by 25 seconds but still finished about a minute behind the other relay team with a time of 2:54.84.  Carter swam the anchor leg again and swam amazingly fast.  I guess when there's no pressure (the other team had finished before he even started his leg), he remembers his technique!

For some reason the kids on Carter's relay team were handed a heat winner ribbon even though they shouldn't have received it.  Carter still wanted to include it in his book of ribbons!

Carter will miss next week's meet because of the one camp he's doing.  We're still going to try to make it to the pool a lot to practice on our own!  Carter is doing great and we're super proud of him!