October 2, 2009

The past month has been one swim practice after another. My girls are just crazy about swimming!

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Regan has been going twice a week and made quite a few friends. She started the swim team barely knowing how to do the crawl stroke. She has improved that stroke and started working on her back stroke. Her endurance is what has made the most progress though.

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Devon is SO in love with swimming. She gets home from three hours of practice and says she can't wait to go back the next day! Ca-razy! The two heats she swims the most are the 50 free and the 100 free. Her meet times have improved from 44 seconds to 29 (50 free) and 151 seconds to 129 (100 free)! Isn't that just awesome!

Devon had her first meet with the high School team. It was actually a District Team relay so none of the times the girls swam are official. Which works out well for Devon. The second heat that she swam in, she had her head angled wrong and her goggles came off. That seriously threw off her time. She kept going though. I was watching her and wondering why she didn't just grab the goggles (they were over her mouth) and toss them off. Later I found out that she would have been disqualified if she touched her goggles.

Next week she has a meet on Wednesday and another on Friday. I ordered a new zoom for my camera so hopefully I'll be able to get some good action shots of Devon swimming.

(Devons cheering section)

A few weeks ago Devon had her first swim practice with the High School swim team. The pool they usually use was closed for their annual repairs so they used the local outdoor pool instead.

(The High School team and Poseidon use the same pool. Its an indoor pool which is wonderful for the swimmers but horrible for mothers who love to take pictures of everything. )

The outdoor pool they used is just perfect for pictures. I was planning on just dropping her off but decided at the last minute to stay a few minutes and take some photos.

I'm really glad I did.

I usually don't like to do posts without some sort of picture but I switched computers and haven't had the time to move my pictures over. This post isn't going to be anything special though so I guess the picture won't make much difference.

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I just wanted to leave a little update and let you all know that the next two weeks probably won't have any posts. The girls are starting swim team on Monday (the new years practice starts then) and we have a whole lot of appointments I'm trying to squeeze in. Not to mention all the back to school shopping and orientations we have.

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So most likely, I will be back around the 1st or 2nd with some updates and new pictures. See you then!

I think I've mentioned before that Devon swims for Poseidon. Poseidon is a USA Swimming program that participates in Pacific Northwest Swimming (PNS), the local USA swimming organization representing nearly 5,000 athletes in western Washington. Out of the five levels, Devon is currently at level three. Her goal is to reach level five by her junior year in high school. (She is going to be a freshman this Fall)

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As of today, she is also going to be swimming for Centralia High School. (*sidenote* The captain of the High School swim team is Regans private swim coach) The high school swim season is roughly twelve weeks long while Poseidon is a year round program.

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So starting August 24 Devon will be swimming Monday through Friday from 3-5 for the high school and M,W,F from 4:30-6 for Poseidon. I realize the times overlap but both teams train in the same pool and the two coaches work together on the kids who swim for both teams.

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Starting the day after labor Day the high school swim team will start at 3:30 instead of 3.

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AND---if everything goes well and Regan makes the swim team (Poseidon) she will be swimming on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-5:45.