12Y0M 10Y3M 日本人学校水泳記録会 PJS Swimming gala

今年は小学校最後の水泳記録会。CSCに行きだして水泳も上手になってきたので、かい君たちが学校記録更新に向けて頑張っている影響を受けて、アラタも挑戦。

一人３種目しかトライできなく、そのうち一種目は25Mフリースタイル。後２つ、確実に更新できそうなのは、25Mと50Mのバックだったが、バックは50Mだけにして、25Mはバタブライにチャレンジしたら？と、私。

結果的にはバタフライ、フリーは、0.1秒及ばず。後で朝礼で表彰されるということで、確実な二つをトライさせればよかったという声もあったが、難しいのにチャレンジしたことは大切だし、50Mバックだけでも記録を更新できたからいいんじゃないかなと思う。

学校対抗リレーは男子、悲願のUplandsに勝った。とはいえ、年齢的には向こうのYear6は若いから、ちょっとこっちが有利なんだけど。でもメダルをもらったのはうれしい。

The last swimming gala at PJS primary group. Arata has been training at CSC since July and he has started to show some improvement. Kai, particularly, has worked hard towards breaking the school records and Arata also decided to go for it.

One child can only choose 3 events, of which they have to do 25M free. We knew Arata would be able to break 25m and 50m backstrokes, but it sounded too easy for him. I suggested him to forget about 25m back and swim 25m fly instead.

He wasn't successful in 25m fly and free by just 0.1sec. Some mothers said it must have been better if Arata  had swam 2 backstroke events. But I think it was more important for him to challenge rather difficult targets. In anyway, he's a school record holder of  50m backstroke for year 6 boys.

The 4 x 25 free style relay was also quite exciting to watch. PJS year 6 boys won over Uplands year 6 team. Well, they were actually one year younger than our boys, but it was still brilliant as PJS hasn't beaten Uplands for a long period of time.