Swim Meet #3

The boys had a swim meet at the Longview Rec Center today.  Longview has a huge team and the meet went on forever!  We didn't finish until around 2 pm (we got there around 7:30 am to get a good sport and for the boys to warm up).  We had to stay for the entire meet this time too because I was volunteering as clerk of course (the clerks make sure all the kids are lined up correctly for their heats and lanes).  My mom is visiting right now so she watched Gray and helped with Carter and Rylan while I volunteered.

Today Rylan swam the individual freestyle and backstroke events as well as the freestyle relay.  He swam the freestyle in 41.29 seconds (1.17 seconds slower than last week) and placed 9th (out of 19).  He swam backstroke in 41.11 seconds (29.3 seconds FASTER than last week) and placed 8th (out of 11).  Rylan's freestyle relay team swam the relay in 2 minutes, 56.07 seconds and finished in 3rd place.

Rylan with his friend Max who was in one of his preschool 2 year old preschool class:

Carter swam the same events as Rylan as well as the medley relay.  He finally broke 30 seconds in both of his individual events - yay!!!

Freestyle: 28.08 seconds, 11th place (out of 20) (best time by 5.67 seconds)
Backstroke: 29.79 seconds, 5th place (out of 16) (best time by 1.27 seconds)
Freestyle Relay: 1:52.55, 4th place
Medley Relay: 2:19.45, 3rd place

Carter got to swim butterfly in the medley relay.  It was his first time ever swimming butterfly and he did great!  He didn't DQ the relay and that's all the really mattered!  Here's a video of him swimming:

I'm super proud of these boys again this week.  Both were a bit disappointed they didn't get heat ribbons (Rylan was especially disappointed after the freestyle race since he got two heat ribbons last week - there were some tears) but they moved on quickly.  The boys finally got their team shirts this week - they love them!!!