A blog devoted to my favorite swimmer!

This blog is for documenting the progress of my favorite swimmer, my daughter Rachel. She has started to show some grit and determination in achieving her goals, so I thought I would record her achievements here for her to go back and see how far she has come, but also for family members, friends, etc. who want to follow how she is doing to make it easy for them. Rachel had a swim meet this weekend, and did really well! She won a heat, and cut a lot of time on several events. That is what I love about swimming....you are mostly competing against yourself. She got her first "B" time - swimming the 50 free in 39.37 seconds. Her biggest cut was in the 200 IM, but she hadn't swam that in about 8 months, so I am not all that surprised that this was her biggest cut. She had a previous best time of 5:02.03 and today she swam it in 4:19.75 She also had big cuts in the 200 free (cutting about 37 seconds) and is now about 11 seconds away from the "B" time. She also had a big cut in her 100 backstroke, cutting 31 seconds and is now 15 seconds from a "B" time. She swam the 100 butterfly for the first time yesterday and got a legal time! That is one killer event for a small fry. She is now about 4 seconds from a B time in the 50 butterfly and about 3 seconds away in the 50 back. Based on her splits from the 200 free, I really think that she could have been really close to the B time in the 100 free, but her goggles came off when she dove in! She pulled them back up but got water in them and didn't stop to empty out the water, so the poor thing was zigzagging all over the pool! You did great this weekend, kid. Keep up the good work!