{"id":4336,"date":"2011-11-05T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2011-11-05T23:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T23:48:31","slug":"annas-first-swim-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/annas-first-swim-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna’s First Swim-Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

We signed Anna up for swim practice this fall. \u00a0She hasn’t been all too thrilled about it, but she’s nonetheless managed to get herself to the pool three times a week, after school, most weeks so far. \u00a0So far most practices have been ok-to-fun, so that’s been encouraging. \u00a0And just to recap: \u00a0Before this she attended a swim school in the US<\/a> for two years,\u00a0\u00a0between the ages of 3-5. \u00a0At the end of that run she was very comfortable in the water, and didn’t need any outside assistance while swimming.<\/p>\n

All this is a lead up to the fact that today was Anna’s first swim meet. \u00a0The sports club (Brei\u00f0ablik<\/a>) called an ‘internal’ swim meet, that is the kids from the lowest three ranks (C, D and E) were to compete against each other. \u00a0So this morning we went to the other swimming pool in our town, which has a\u00a0luxurious 25m indoor pool (as well as a 50 m outdoor pool, hot tubs, big water slide, and a smaller inside pool.<\/p>\n

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Anna warming up.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Waiting for her turn. She was to compete in two events: 25m breaststroke and 50m freestyle. Since this was swimming, there were some 22 events planned, but thankfully there weren't that many competitors, or long distances, so it went pretty quickly.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anna in lane 5 (bottom of the image) for her first ever 'competition': 25m breaststroke. She told me afterwards she'd gotten confused with the hand-movements, but she still managed to come in 4th out of five, so she was pretty happy about that. Her time was 50.88 seconds.<\/p><\/div>\n

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She got a pretty late start for her second event: 50 m freestyle. I don't think they've spent a whole lot of time practicing jumping into the pool, so there's definitely some room for improvement. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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Getting close to the goal... Anna was third with a time of 57.51 seconds. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

After the meet was over, Finnur came to pick us up. \u00a0The remainder of the day was spent shop-hopping while Finnur watched a soccer game. \u00a0We then headed home to receive some good friends. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Two out of many dinner guests. They left their kids behind in our care. Crazy people! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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Eating dessert. Yum! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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We signed Anna up for swim practice this fall. \u00a0She hasn’t been all too thrilled about it, but she’s nonetheless managed to get herself to the pool three times a week, after school, most weeks so far. \u00a0So far most practices have been ok-to-fun, so that’s been encouraging. \u00a0And just to recap: \u00a0Before this sheRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}