Benjamin's swim meet

Today I got to take Benjamin to his swim meet (because it was at our own YMCA and I...can drive there). I parked myself in a seat in the viewing deck (which was the hallway), pulled out my laptop and worked on a presentation and did some research in between his events. These meets are way more chill than the summer events, which always feel like pure chaos to me.

Probably helps that I've only ever signed up for ribbon duty. 

Benjamin's coach was quite ambitious this meet—he signed Benjamin up for a 50 free, a 200 IM, and a 100 fly in addition to two relays! Benjamin took it all in stride, though! He dropped time on his free and IM events. This was his first time racing a 100 fly.

Here he is doing the fly portion of his IM:

I believe he ended up coming in first for that event, even though when he asked his coach how he did the coach said, "Your breathing rhythm was completely out of kilter."

(And I thought, "Aw, that's exactly how I compliment my children as well!" But for real. Like...you know you did a good job—here's a place to improve. You're welcome. I mean, he got first place...did he need praise in that moment? Probably not.)

And here he is sitting all alone, waiting to swim his 100 fly:

He was the only young man in his age to compete this event and—believe it or not—he ended up getting first place in this event as well!

I think he got 4th in the 50 free (though I don't know that for certain) and I think both his relays got first as well. Whatever the case, he had a good time and swam well.

And I got so much work done!