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Summer Swim Meet at Heather Farm Park

·Walnut Creek, California·#summer#bay area#swimming#sports#swim-meet
A woman in a navy shirt and patterned shorts kneels by a pool, talking to two young girls in swimsuits and yellow caps.

Summer swim meet day at Heather Farm Park. The whole deck was a wall of yellow SSC caps, and the girls had their event numbers written up their backs in marker so nobody would lose track of who swam what.

Most of the morning was waiting. Goggles on, goggles adjusted, goggles adjusted again by a coach in a visor while the heat before finished. Then a long stand behind the block at lane 5, watching swimmers come down the pool toward the wall, timers with clipboards on either side.

One of the older coaches walked a girl through her stroke right there on the deck, arms out over the railing, before sending her up. Afterward there were high fives behind the blocks and the temporary tattoos on her arm had started to smear from the water.

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