Pan-Pac

On Friday morning, I got the opportunity to go see heats for the Pan-Pacific Swimming Championships. I've never seen professional swimming before, other than watching on television, and it was cool to see the behind the scenes action. There were several heats per swimming events and it was incredible how incredibly on schedule everything was- it was all over in exactly two hours.

The crowd featured a variety of spectators- there were a lot of young swimmers with their parents (all wearing some sort of swimming t-shirt). We sat in back of a group from Brasil with signs and the Canadian contingency was out in full-force, cheering loudly for all the Canadians.

I got to see a bunch of the Olympic swimmers- Katie Hoff, Leisel Jones, Rebecca Soni, Aaron Piersol, Peter Vanderkaay, and of course, Michael Phelps. Sadly now, I can't seem to remember who all of the pictures of so I just included the ones that I can recognize! :)


Michael post swim
Ryan Lochte (or dimples)
Mr. Aaron Piersol's excellent form

Leisel Jones in the yellow swim cap


Thanks, Bob and Linda! Such a cool experience

Just for kicks and giggles- here's the first time I met Michael Phelps :)

And here's the video (poorly shot, I'm afraid to say) of Michael's heat.