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More pictures from Saturday's Regionals swim meet

this is like, 6am. warmups in the freaking cold.








warmups!


snacks.


team cheers -- the most intensely amusing, totally competitive,
in-your-face event in the whole swim meet.

that day, another team was taking their turn in cheers when our coach
mockingly interrupted with a loud blase cheer of our own, totally cutting the other team off.
hilarious.


le pep talk


these are the marshalling tents: you wait here before you are to race


where R U going?


200m individual medley prelims. my sister is in lead here.


like a giant slab of glittering emerald!






vast indoor tennis courts, in the same club


second round of team cheers. i wish i had filmed this.


the supersharks' team-spirited outfits. had to take a picture.


crazy competitive families with blindly aggressive parents will set up canopies such as these. freaking swim parents! they're actually worse than soccer moms (i am completely serious.)


regionals t-shirt.


mom and i on the bleachers.


people crowd around the pool and will not move during the final heats


six-lane pool.


my arm -- i am supportive. HAHAHAH.

my sister is going to the BC Provincials for SIX events! one of the six is the regional relay, in which a team of four represents an entire district (such as vancouver, fraser south, okanagan, or kootenay). what a jock-nerd.

i am still debating whether i should attend the provincials with the fam. it's far away enough that we'd have to take a plane there, though it's in the same province.