swim meet.....

ok, so yesterday was the first home swim meet that wasn't rained out........and it was a misery to attend.......to see any of our daughter's races required standing in the blistering sun, which seemed as intense at 6:30 pm as it did at noon.......resisting the urge to coach is also tough.......mostly because to yell at your child...'quit looking at the swimmers in the other lanes because it wastes time'.......will not improve her time at all if she is swimming in a race at the time.........nor will be helpful when the race is over because it comes off as criticism....as in 'i cannot do anything right according to you......'.......so we keep these observations to ourselves and hope that the paid coach notices that our child continually looks to see where everybody else is during a race.......and this distraction puts her further and further behind........too bad there isn't a swimming specific drug that helps this problem....now that woudl be useful technology in this 'we have a drug for every occassion' world..........