Jake's first swim meet. Jake told me about 4 weeks ago that he was nervous about his first swim meet. So, you can tell he has been mentally preparing for this...for weeks...literally.
Jake's 25 back...in the lane closest to us.
Jake's 25 free...in lane 2 (farthest swimmer away from us)
(The video of Jake's 50 free won't upload. We'll try another time to see if it works...)
Meanwhile, poor Joe has asked before every swim meet in the last 6 weeks..."Is this the one where Jake swims?" So, this morning was all the more entertaining as at breakfast, Joe says to Jake, "Today is your swim meet, Jake!" This was followed later (in the car) with Joe saying, "So he is going to swim?" (I thought we had cleared that up about 6 weeks ago...but apparently it suddenly had a slightly different meaning. If only I could get in Joe's head to find what he was thinking...)
Anyway...Jake swam the 25 back, 25 free, and 50 free. The result...
25 back...13th out of 18 boys...in a time of 34.51
25 free...15th out of 19 boys...in a time of 30.67 (from a push off the wall in the shallow end)
50 free...9th out of 11 boys in a time of 1:07 (which is 12 seconds faster than when he swam it in practice a few weeks ago)
If you want to watch the videos, sorry in advance for the jostling. Joe videoed the latter two so I could take pictures. But my videoing wasn't much more steady! :)
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| What else would Joe be doing? |
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| Pre-swim talk from Coach (Dad) |
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| Jake's biggest fan! |
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| Talk from Coach before his first event |
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| Ready for 25 back |
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| Waiting for the 25 free |
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| Ready |
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| Set |
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| GO |
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| second in his heat |
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| Post-swim praise from Coach |
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| checking overall places and times |
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| Pre-swim talk for the 50 free |
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| Ready |
And he scored 4 points in the 50 free with his overall finish in 9th place. As Coach pointed out...he swam each 25 of his 50 free almost as fast as his 25 free race (30 seconds in the 25 free and 33 seconds each in the 50 free).
His favorite race was the 50 free. And he had a lot of fun overall! Excited but not nervous he said!
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