Potomac Valley, VA
I love this time of year!! Christmas is definitely my favorite holiday. I love the food, family, songs, smells and presents! My favorite, as a dad, is watching the faces of my children as they tip-toe into the living room to see their gifts from Santa. What their eyes communicate is what I felt when I made the Olympic team-overwhelming excitement!
I’ll never forget getting a shopping cart and loading my cart with all the wonderful gifts you get from being an Olympian–new shirts, shoes, pants, sweats, caps, goggles, bags and more. Anyone who knows me well, knows I love free gifts. That’s Mutual of Omaha!
They give you free gifts!!!! I couldn’t wait to get to Potomac
Valley to give the swimmers their gift bags and top technique tips.
I was also excited to meet up with Davis Tarwater and Peter Vanderkaay. They just returned from
Atlanta where they broke the American record in the 4 X 200 freestyle relay. How cool is that!
What was even better was the 180 swimmers standing on deck ready to learn and race us! Yes, that’s right. We raced all one-hundred and eighty swimmers.
It was a great clinic and Davis and Peter now have 180 new fans ready to cheer them on. In fact, Davis and Peter flew straight to Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center to launch their 2008 training.
Streamline award goes to Saya and Brendon. Great job you guys!
Can’t type long…I’m off to
Herndon,VA.
Josh
