Swimmers Take Your Marks

My favorite part of swim practice is when my Tough Guy takes the blocks. He makes me think of the New Zealand Rugby team, intimidating dressed in all black. 

 His starts are getting better and better. He actually shoots off like an arrow more than half the time.

Today the coaches got all the swimmers in the two far lanes, big kids and little kids, and had them play "sharks and minnows."

Besides being a nice team building exercise fostering camaraderie, it was adorable. I always love to see big kids be nice and have fun with little kids.