Both boys also moved up an age group this season so they are the younger swimmers in their events. Each age group covers two years so Rylan is swimming with the 7-8 year olds and Carter is with the 9-10 year olds.
The boys did a golf camp this week so Rylan had to practice with Carter's age group so we could make it to the camp on time. That also meant missing most of the swim meet.
The boys got to swim their freestyle events before we had to leave.
Here is Rylan's event (he is in lane 2 - lane 1 is the closest lane in the video).
His time was 32.16 seconds. His best time last season was 29.47 seconds. He placed 14th out of 25 (which he was not happy about at all). But I thought he did great.
Here is Carter's event (he is in lane 6 - the furthest away in the video).
His time was 20.24 seconds, which is his best time ever (his previous best was 22.45 seconds). He placed 5th out of 20 swimmers.
Then because the meet is so long, we came back for the boys to swim the IM after their golf camp. They weren't too excited about it because they were tired but it was good to get an IM under their belt.
Unfortunately both boys DQ'd. Rylan just learned both butterfly and breaststroke in the last week so it wasn't surprising. They both take awhile to learn to do perfectly. And Rylan swallowed some water during breast and panicked so he could have DQ'd for a bunch of reasons. Carter DQ'd for a scissor kick which probably happened because he was so tired. IM is tough as you have to do one lap of each stroke.
We are looking forward to being at the rest of the meets for the whole time. And Rylan hopefully getting to swim backstroke which is his best event!
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