Exhausted

Oh my! This weekend was a real marathon for both of us. Saturday was the Long Distance Championship meet. Bean did indeed swim all three events (and was one of only 4 kids on the team to do so). Here are her results:

1500 Free 22:06 (a drop of 28 seconds) for 2nd place
800 Free 11:16.69 (a drop of 43 seconds -- an "A" time would be 11:16.49) for 1st place
400 IM 6:39 (a drop of 12 seconds) for 3rd place

I learned a very important lesson: when you squat down 46 times (30 in the 1500 and 16 in the 800) to stick lap counters in the water, your legs will be *very* sore the next day!

Sunday was the Pentathlon meet. Bean had another spectacular day. The kids had the opportunity to swim all the events that make up the Pentathlon standings. For Bean's age group those were the 100 IM, 50 Free, 50 Back, 50 Breast and 50 Fly (although who decided to put the fly at the end of this thing, I don't know!).

She dropped 3.6 seconds in the 100 IM for a new "A" time, 0.75 seconds in the 50 Free to get a 30.84 (only 0.47 seconds behind Tiger now!), 0.31 seconds off the 50 Back (missing an "A" time by 0.08), and 1.68 seconds off the 50 Breast to get within 1.29 seconds of qualifying in the Breaststroke for the first time ever! By the time she stepped up to the blocks for the 50 Fly, you could stick a fork in her, because she was done! LOL

She fell asleep in the car on the way to the base to pick up dinner. I had a hard time getting my legs to work at all when I got out to get dinner. We went to bed at 7:15 and slept until 9:30 the next morning. We got up, had breakfast, and went back to bed to watch "Smallville" on DVD the rest of the day. School? Yeah, we don't normally take Federal Holidays when Hubby is gone, but we took this one!

Now, there's no meet for 3 weeks (woohoo!) and the coaches are going to start working the kids on speed, starts and turns. Our next meet is another Pentathlon meet (but without Long Distance the day before). It should be fun to watch!

TTFN~