How many Brute Squad T-shirts is enough?

I was planning to do a nice photo montage from the COMSA State Championship Swim Meet, along with a detailed analysis of my own performances and a summary of the accomplishments of my Foothills Masters teammates. But it takes time to compile such a piece, and time has been hard to come by.

But numerous people have complained (more urgently than I'd think is appropriate, but...whatever) about having to look at Leonard Nimoy. So under such duress, I have decided to slap up a few photos, make a couple of half-witted observations about them, and then see if I have the energy for a complete meet review at a later time.

I kinda doubt it. But we'll see.

Anyway, I thought this was a pretty decent photo:



And I found it interesting that Reynold (AKA "Terminator") wasn't content to just crush his competition in his races -- he also felt compelled to do countless dips on the edge of the pool. The guy never stops working out!

My own personal energy wasn't quite at that level. This meet left me completely and utterly exhausted. Oh sure, I earned one more Brute Squad T-shirt, and brought home a rainbow of ribbons, but I went home wondering if it might be time to break my habit of swimming all the long events.

I have pursued that strategy for two main reasons: One is that in most years, there's ONE event that nobody else in my age group enters...so by default, I take home a blue ribbon just by swimming. Some years it's the 200 fly, sometimes it's the 200 breaststroke. I never know. This year it was the 1000 freestyle.

Yes, I know that such awards are meaningless, and there's more pride in a good effort for a 5th-place finish than there is in coasting in for 1st when there's no competition. But on the other hand, those fast guys didn't bother to show up, did they?

Now here's a real competitor.

I snapped the shutter just as Erin was giving "the look" to one of her opponents. She didn't have to use any words to get the meaning across. "You're going down, punk!"

It's stuff like that that makes these meets so much fun.

Anyway, I'll close out the day with a few other photos. Can Reynold walk on water? You decide.

The other shots are a generic view of the pool, a shot of Kim showing good breathing form, and one of my "art" shots of the lighting design in the stairwell of the facility.

I hope you enjoy them. We'll return to discussions of Mr. Nimoy and his spacefaring friends soon, I hope. In the meantime, have a great day!