What a wonderful weekend. The weekend of 13 - 15 February was one of my best in a long time. Catie was swimming in the ODAC Championships held at Radford University. Cam, Bonnie and I (as well as the dog, another story) all went to watch her. Since Cam had purchased me a new DIGITAL SLR camera for Christmas, I asked a good friend if I could borrow a high-end lens to take photos of the event. He agreed, and everything was set.
Things started good and only got better. Before we could even get there, Catie has swam her 500 Free in prelims and swam it right at 6:00 minutes. Her goal for the year had been met, and she would swim again that evening. We raced to get to Radford and couldn't wait for the evenings races. Catie dropped an addtional 9 seconds from her time in the evenings race, swimming a 5:51 in the 500 Free. We were all so very excited and I took about 40 pictures during that one event.
Catie had an equally successful Saturday when her event was the 400 Individual Medley. Again she swam a personal best in the morning and dropped an addtional 10 seconds when swimming in the evening. And I got to see and photograph both events.
I was, by this time, taking photos of the entire team to give to them later. And by the end of the weekend I had taken almost 500 photos.
Sunday was Catie's 1650 Freestyle event. She swam another personal best, but, was not pleased. She really felt she could have done better. Cam and I were incredibly proud of her for, not just the weekend, but, the entire season. She has worked hard all year, taken her swimming seriously and had the results that proved it. SHE IS GREAT!!
Me, I had a computer full of photos that I had to review, crop, correct or purge and then try to put in an organized fashion. That took about 4 days. A fun 4 days mind you. I just may add a few on here....
LIFE IS GOOD!
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