<p>&#0160;<br />illegal to get up before 8am on the first day of the holidays......</p>
<p>and yet by 8am we were at the pool.....</p>
<p>and the girls were warming up for the mini diving comp at their club.</p>
<p>It was so quick it was over by 10am....</p>
<p>beats every gym comp I ever went too which mostly consumed the whole weekend...</p>
<p>although this was nothing as elaborate but very well organised in terms of scoring and record keeping</p>
<p>and so much fun on the last day of term.</p>
<p>They run one every term but this was the first time we went .....</p>
<p>and it was just what Miss A needed to be inspired.....</p>
<p>I on the otherhand.....</p>
<p>lacked inspiration and struggled with the lighting especially since the girls did warm up on the far board</p>
<p>and no matter what I did I just could not get a decent shot this morning....</p>
<p>so instead you will have to make do with my &#0160;favourite, albeit &#0160;very flawed photo of the day....</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457c668970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8728" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457c668970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457c668970b-500wi" title="IMG_8728" /></a></p>
<p>and some more....</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457c7c9970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8620" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457c7c9970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457c7c9970b-500wi" title="IMG_8620" /></a>&#0160; <a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134877772d6970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8623" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20134877772d6970c" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134877772d6970c-320wi" title="IMG_8623" /></a> <br /><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e2013487774197970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8624" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e2013487774197970c" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e2013487774197970c-500wi" title="IMG_8624" /></a></p>
<p>And while they were pretty much the best photos i got this was my favourite moment....</p>
<p>Can you guess why.... <a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e396970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8641" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e396970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e396970b-500wi" title="IMG_8641" /></a></p>
<p>I&#39;ll give you a clue....</p>
<p>She is supposed to jump straight up... not out.... but she is scared ...</p>
<p>and she is about to do a ....</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e55c970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8642" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e55c970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e55c970b-500wi" title="IMG_8642" /></a> <a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e6dc970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8643" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e6dc970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e6dc970b-500wi" title="IMG_8643" /></a> <br /><br /><br /></p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134877755fd970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8647" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20134877755fd970c" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134877755fd970c-500wi" title="IMG_8647" /></a> <a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e0b4970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8648" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e0b4970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e0b4970b-500wi" title="IMG_8648" /></a> <a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e12e970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8649" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e12e970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457e12e970b-500wi" title="IMG_8649" /></a></p>
<p>a frontsault.... off the 3 meter board</p>
<p>For some reason she is really scared of them and mostly refuses....</p>
<p>she prefers this 3 meter board ... the far one with bad lighting....</p>
<p>to the other one... the one they did the comp on.... she will occassionally do the fronstault on this board but typically refuses on the other board.....</p>
<p>and yes she stuffed the first one in .... the above sequence is a combination of the second and third front sault she did....all are from the practice round</p>
<p>So the story goes that... they had an hour warm up and practice... by the end of that hour little my little territorian miss e was so cold she refused to participate in the comp....</p>
<p>ofcourse for miss e every refusal is followed by the words: &quot;What will I get?&quot;</p>
<p>My usual response &quot;a kiss&quot; didn&#39;t work.... nor did &quot;to go shopping&quot; (probably cause we went last night!)</p>
<p>So I resorted to bad mother tactics and played on her weakness.....</p>
<p>all the while thinking: oh what a bad mother am i and said: &quot;Ten dollars&quot;</p>
<p>So ten dollars it was.... and when I told Miss A she said....</p>
<p>&quot;ooh do I get ten dollars too if I do a front sault?&quot;</p>
<p>and so in the interest of fairness I said yes....</p>
<p>...... knowing that bribery very rarely works on that child....</p>
<p>(I had tried bribing her with a hot chocolate before!)</p>
<p>And to her credit ..... she did it.... the frontsault off the 3 meter diving board she doesn&#39;t like....</p>
<p>I strongly suspect it won her 3rd place (out of 6) and a ribbon in the comp and when she finished..</p>
<p>she came up to me and said &quot;I did it, Did you see? Do I get my ten dollars now?&quot;</p>
<p>Then admitted that she had completely forgotten about the money and that knowing that she did it and gaining confidence was far better than the money....</p>
<p>...... the money was just a bonus..... topped off by the fact one of her coaches was &#0160;proud of her...</p>
<p>(the other already knew she could do it- as did I)</p>
<p>There &#0160;are no photos of her frontsault from the actual competition.....&#0160;</p>
<p>I watched instead and refused to jinx it by photographing her....</p>
<p>but it was much better than all of my photographs of her practice rounds...</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457f4f7970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8653" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f457f4f7970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f457f4f7970b-500wi" title="IMG_8653" /></a></p>
<p>And in the interest of fairness again......</p>
<p>E came 4th (out of 4) &#0160;in the 8/9 year old comp....</p>
<p>.... She was not impressed....</p>
<p>but I was, cause she did a dive she had never done before...</p>
<p>and just because she is E and externally motivated...</p>
<p>she was more interested in what place everyone came than the actual competition!</p>
<p>&#0160;</p>
<p>&#0160;</p>

<p>jump.....</p>
<p>point toes.....</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f41fe279970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8431" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f41fe279970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f41fe279970b-500wi" title="IMG_8431" /></a></p>
<p>&#0160;</p>

<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201348738735b970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8387" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e201348738735b970c" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201348738735b970c-500wi" title="IMG_8387" /></a> <br />maybe I can touch the sky..........</p>
<p>This was the very first lens I bought a few years back......</p>
<p>On days like today it is still my favourite.</p>
<p>or maybe backwards.....</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e2013487388045970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8556" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e2013487388045970c" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e2013487388045970c-500wi" title="IMG_8556" /></a> <br />Of course the whole reason she had the life jacket on was that she was meant to be doing:</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f417db9c970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8559" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f417db9c970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f417db9c970b-500wi" title="IMG_8559" /></a> <br />a back dive.....</p>
<p>the coach tried everything ...... bribing her with lollies......</p>
<p>.....checking out the scenery....</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f417eaf3970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8560" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f417eaf3970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f417eaf3970b-500wi" title="IMG_8560" /></a> <br /><br /></p>
<p>to no avail..... this was as close as she got to a back dive..</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f417f830970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8541" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f417f830970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f417f830970b-500wi" title="IMG_8541" /></a> <br />we did however get loads and loads of these:</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e2013487389cb1970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8396" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e2013487389cb1970c" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e2013487389cb1970c-500wi" title="IMG_8396" /></a> <br />and these:</p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f4181ec7970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8526" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f4181ec7970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f4181ec7970b-500wi" title="IMG_8526" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f41826fe970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_8529" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133f41826fe970b" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133f41826fe970b-500wi" title="IMG_8529" /></a></p>
<p>but..... I had to change my lens for these dives as I kept cutting off her hands and feet....</p>
<p>I have to say though... that I absolutely love this place especially on a saturday morning....</p>
<p>when there is no swimming and it is bright and airy (albeit cold) outside.....</p>
<p>....not to mention the coaches are awesome...</p>