Swim Team

Tonight was Christopher's one and only swim meet.  We have missed so much because of baseball, general schedule and swimmer's ear.  He hadn't even been to practice in a couple of weeks and decided he was just too tired to go to practice this morning.

Yep.  That's green hair.  River Rat green.  I remember kids having green hair from the chlorine, but this is hair spray to show team spirit.  (We actually converted from a chlorine-based system to a salt-based system - lot of ear infections, swimmer's ear and other sicknesses to the jury is still out.)  You should see some of these kids.  

I was so proud of him tonight.  He has a very distinct approach.  He "streamlines" or stays underwater as far as he can before he starts his stroke.  For the 25 free he went almost the entire length of the pool.  Unfortunately, he was so into his swimming he didn't realize he was drifting out of his lane.

Such great form.  I was able to watch him in one event (missed the others because I was timing) - there was a group of guys James's age standing around me.  They thought it was so cool that he was able go half the length of the pool underwater.  They went on and on.  It was a cool moment for a mom.  He was about even with the two other leaders at the turn.  

He really turned it on the second half of the second 25 and won by a decent margin in his heat.  We didn't stay to find out exactly how he did, but I was so proud of him.  He really gave it his all.