Poolside-Chat-parents-of-competitive-swimmers

[Glittertwins]

Hopefully this will work as we’re at 999 on the other!

20 second PB is amazing. Well done mini Glitter.
Doing 1,500m SC is A LOT of turns.

Good luck to the rest of you.

Well done glitter 🤩

Fat fingers, it was only 10.
Not the best of starts this morning but onwards to the next event!

So far so good, 1 amazing swim in the 50 back winning his heat from lane 9. And I nearly gone run over by a tram.

You're not having much luck with transport there @Hellocatshome !!
Back home for the day, not bad day but it's not possible to get PBs every time nor can it be expected but wasn't exactly far off

Honestly I shouldn't be allowed out. Exactly @Glittertwins you can't PB everytime or you would end up finishing before you started!

Glad everyone's had a good day.

I count not being run over as lucky 🤣

2 races and 2 SC pbs for DS.
(Not pbs from his LC conversions though!)

And 2 golds!

Back tomorrow for another 4 🫣🙄

Well done to "mini" @itsgettingweird

A gold, a bronze and a county record - DD is happy 😊

Amazing 🤩

Brilliant porseb
Wow, the standards are high on this chat. Amazing work all 💪🏼

Wow, well done there @porseb!

Wow well done mini Porseb and not very mini Weird and mini Glitter and all the swim kids.

Technical issues this morning so running behind before we've even started here.

First race done. Not his stroke. Good 1 sec PB on his SC course time.

DQ'd 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

@itsgettingweird Nooooooo 🙈

We had some spectacular issues last night. Glad I wasn't there

Well done to everyone - some amazing achievements.

I always dreaded the power going down - the thought of switching to manual for everything would be 😱. I so liked Hytek - everything done with just a click of a button.

Back on the sofa now, he rounded off with a small PB on his final event and beat his nemesis so is happy

Well done mini glitter.

Not so "mini" weird had a mixed day!

Good back but was DQ'd!

Pb in 200IM but he really is not an IM racer as cannot do breaststroke!

50 and 400m free were good and he got 2 more golds!

Home now and will rest up as LC training at 5am 😳😝

Sounds like he bounced back from the DQ which is great for resilience

Home eventually thank goodness, I am so ready for my own bed. DS had a good weekend, 6 races, 6 PBs and his highest ever finish at a Regionals.

Well done to all the swimmers this weekend. Head down now for another training block to winters.

@Dreikanter - what is the results system called? I'm familiar with hysteria but not what's currently being used.

Not hysteria 🤦🏻‍♀️ Hytek!

Porseb everyone used Hytek where I was (Scotland) - England was using Sports Systems or something like that? I remember it was a right faff doing meet entries for English meets.

The recorder exam required you to be able to seed and run events manually. The guy running the course told us about a time the power went down and they had to resort to running a big meet manually - no printers meant everything had to be done by hand. Nightmare!

Does anyone know why boys competition jammers seem to be like gold dust at the moment? I'm not even trying to find a bargain just any pair of boys size 28 Arena R-Evo One Jammers and they just don't exist. Is there some sort of supply chain issue, I cant even get them direct from Arena.