Swim Meet today
Duchess swam in five events this morning. She had a pretty good time. She still struggles with her dives (which remain hilariously bellyfloppy), and isn't confident enough of her flip turn to deploy it at meets, but she's now officially a better swimmer than both her parents.
These are some crappy phone videos. The first part is Duchess on the return trip of her 50M butterfly leg of a relay team that was dramatically behind even before she hit the water. By the time I started recording, her stroke had deteriorated (due to fatigue) so far as to be almost unrecognizable as butterfly, but I was just impressed that she wasn't drowning, because butterfly seems insanely hard to do. The second part is Duchess's 50M freestyle race. (Her best friend from kung fu is racing in the lane beside her.) She won her heat and came in fourth overall in the 9-10 age group.
She placed second in her age group in breaststroke later in the day. She also competed in a freestyle relay and a 200M individual medley at which she did fairly poorly. She was pretty crushed by that IM experience, because she had been weirdly overconfident about it and I think she thought she might win. So. Lessons were learned, bellies were flopped, shoulders were sunburned.
These are some crappy phone videos. The first part is Duchess on the return trip of her 50M butterfly leg of a relay team that was dramatically behind even before she hit the water. By the time I started recording, her stroke had deteriorated (due to fatigue) so far as to be almost unrecognizable as butterfly, but I was just impressed that she wasn't drowning, because butterfly seems insanely hard to do. The second part is Duchess's 50M freestyle race. (Her best friend from kung fu is racing in the lane beside her.) She won her heat and came in fourth overall in the 9-10 age group.
She placed second in her age group in breaststroke later in the day. She also competed in a freestyle relay and a 200M individual medley at which she did fairly poorly. She was pretty crushed by that IM experience, because she had been weirdly overconfident about it and I think she thought she might win. So. Lessons were learned, bellies were flopped, shoulders were sunburned.
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