11/04/15
Today was the annual swimarathon at the local pool. We had 7 girls who came this year, 2 older ones and a bunch of younger ones. This post from last year explains how it works. One of the younger girls had a Nemo swimming hat with a fin on the top which provoked quite an amusing discussion about how animals without fins wouldn't be able to swim to which we pointed out they could swim and they didn't have fins and tadpoles could swim (to which one girl said 'but they have legs like us' and didn't believe us when we said they didn't!)
The girls started off swimming a length each, in turn but some of the younger ones started tiring pretty quickly. We don't force them to keep swimming, only to do their best, but we do encourage them to do one more, and the look on their faces when they complete that next length is the best!
This year the girls did 61 lengths which was pretty good for a very young team and was exactly the same as the other Brownie unit two lanes over.
