The swim meet that was supposed to be held a month an a half ago was finally rescheduled to this past Saturday. I got to go only because Alex's game was rescheduled to another weekend. The boys stayed home while Patrick, Natalie and I drove to North Austin. It took us almost two hours to get there.
Originally the kids were supposed to be in no more than three events each. Natalie was supposed to be in the 100m Freestyle Relay, 50m Freestyle, and 25m Breaststroke. Her coach (Kris) asked for a volunteer to be in the 100m Medley Relay, so she got to swim butterfly in that one. She also practically begged to do the 100m Individual Medley, so she got to swim in that one too. I still get such a kick out of seeing her swim. She enjoys it so much that we signed her up for swimming four days a week starting this month!
In the Freestyle Relay race, Kris had grouped them according to age, mixing girls and boys. Apparently "they" wanted her to have teams that were only girls or only boys. That meant that Natalie's team was visibly and considerably older than the other two girls' teams, so they won pretty handily with a time of 1:23.02 (the times are for my reference).
The 100m Medley Relay was really close. Natalie's team started out pretty slowly, but Natalie made up a lot of time with her butterfly. The girl that swam the last leg, freestyle, really busted her butt catching up to the girl on the other team and basically touched just ahead of her with a total time of 1:44.44. Two first places for Natalie!
Natalie's times for the other three races were as follows: 50m Freestyle--42.452 sec, 25m Breaststroke--30.8 sec, and 100m IM--1:52.835. I'll have to look up how those compare with last year's times. She was the most proud of her ribbon in the IM race. There weren't any other girls ages 8-9 who were swimming the 100m IM, so she swam with two boys the same age and won handily. When the girls 10-12 swam the 100m IM after her, she said that they were "so big" and that she was glad she didn't have to swim against them. I told her to hang out by the finish line and to ask what the winning time was, because I thought she swam faster than they were swimming. She did and she was very excited to report that the winning time of the older girls was 7 seconds slower than her time. She would have beaten them! This is a picture of her rushing up to me after finishing the IM. She's been a bit obsessed with swimming the IM since last summer, I think because she wasn't able to do it before. We'll see how she competes against the older girls, because she'll be swimming against some of them this summer in the neighborhood team.
After the meet, we let her choose where she wanted to eat--Wendy's of course, and then we made the long trek back home.
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