Swimming with Cheyenne

Cactus Classic.

Today we spent the day as a family in Scottsdale for a swim meet.  Randy and I timed while our children managed themselves.  Okay there was moments of rowdiness, and bickering but they survived and Cheyenne improved her times on the two races she did:  50 Free and 50 Fly.  Cheyenne has a gift.  She has "perfect form" according to the coaches.  It is very enjoyable to watch her swim.  I have told her she is an Esther Williams.  A beautiful and graceful swimmer.  It is fun to be there with your children when they are doing what they love.  

I enjoy timing with Randy it is a time that we do not talk about work and enjoy time together.  Yesterday I think I rubbed off on him a little.  He blew 3 watches visiting with Annabelle's mom, Amy.  (That means when the buzzer went off for the start he didn't get his stop watch pushed in time.)  Good thing they have three timers in place:  the stopwatch (which if you blow you have to immediately get a replacement from the head timer who starts 2 extra watches each race) The touch pad that the swimmers hit as they finish, and the plunger that I push at the same time that they hit the wall.  So very rarely do you blow all three.  Which takes some of the pressure off of the timers.  

Yesterday though we all got thrown for a loop.  The power went out when we had only 12 races left.  With no power you are not allowed to enter the pool for fear of power surges and the fact that there is no circulation for the water and it could be unhealthy..  Obviously these people have never swam in  a pond. :)

 It is fun to see the improvement in the swimmers.  There are some swimmers that blow you away everytime with how talented they are.  It is amazing.  

In the evening was finals at Mona Plummer.  We didn't make it, but it would have been fun to watch.  Their were swimmers with olympic cuts and former olympians swimming.  Unfortunately Randy was too tired and we didn't make it back to finals.  So hopefully we will get another chance this year to be at the same pool with many of our nations olympians.  What an experience.