Splash N Dash #2

Collin was not excited that his dad sign him up for another race mainly because this one does not involve a bike. It's a hundred meter swim and then a mile run.  Actually, I take that back about him not being excited about racing. It's really hard to tell these days what he is excited about doing. He says he likes one sport, then place the sport and says he never said he like that sport he liked another one. Therefore he gets to play the mall until he decides which one he might like best, if he likes even any sport. He generally is happy to have participated and very glad that he did it but leading up to it is definitely a struggle including this race. 

This morning, he was happy to see a few of his friends were racing too.  It was Jake's first time so Collin was telling him about the race and what to expect which I thought was really nice. Collin himself did not seem like he was too stressed or worried about the race even though he is not swim all year other than to play in the pool. I was a little worried about his endurance because he was going to be swimming in 50 m pool and is used to the neighborhood 25 m pool. While standing in line waiting for his turn to jump in the water, he was talking to the boys in front and behind him and did not seem to be too worried about the swim. When it was his turn, he was ready to go, jumped in the water, and took off with a freestyle stroke. I was pleasantly surprised to see him moving right along down the lane to the other end of the pool. He made it to the one side, went under the rope, and then head back to the other side before getting out to run to the transition area to put his shoes on for the run. It seem like he was a little tired in the run but still ran fairly fast.  In the end, he came in 11th out of 18 boys in his age group. He didn't seem to mind the placement and was not sad that he did not get an award. He wanted to know more about when he was going to play with his friend Jake and eat some ice cream with them on the one hand, it was great to see him not crying like some of the other kids were doing because they did not win an award, but on the other hand, he seemed nonchalant about the outcome of the race.  Well, at least he got up this morning and did some exercising before heading over to a friends house.  😎