The First Fall Swim Meet

This is a shot of the "close" end of the pool during warm-ups.  Note that there are roughly 3 additional swimming organizations who are not in here at the time, including the Rams Swim Club, in which, Robby is a card carrying member.  It's going to be a long day...

The lad, about a half hour after the shot above was taken, warming up.  Finally...  It's going to be a long day...

There he is!  Lane 6!  Getting up onto the, uh... jumping-off-of-apparatus.

Not bad!  I'm not sure where he came in when all "4 of 4" heats were graded, but in his group, he took second.  The scores of the top 4 never posted on the board, but they were a ways behind these others.

One might wonder where Rob spent most of the time in between heats.  The answer to that is over by his coaches, Todd and Hannah, where he talked their ears off and at one point, I saw coach Hannah give him the "zip your lip" motion.

Here we are again with Robby in second place again.  And again, I have no idea where he placed when both races of Heat 22 were completed.

Here's Robby at the starting gate for his first 200m Backstroke.  He's the one without a swim cap.  How did he do?

Looks pretty good doesn't it?!?  Well, the reality of the situation is that he lost track of counting his laps and swam a 150, instead of a 200.  Henceforth, he was disqualified and made fun of heartily.  He said, "I just have to own it...".  So later on that night, I had mowed the dangerous stuff with the tractor and was ready for him to take over.  He got on the machine and just prior to starting the motor, I hollered over, "make sure you finish all of the laps!".  I giggled. 

As the inimitable Bugs Bunny would say, "Ain't I a Stinker?".