What a great way to end the swim meet!

Well it is now ten o'clock and I am finally home and so are all the fantastic TX swimmers. This was my first PE trip and I am so enormously proud of the whole team. Although we have had some outstanding individual achievements the whole team have been wonderful. Each child gave it their all and many PBs were smashed and medals won too. The total medal count will be in tomorrow so until then, we'll done TX!



The results are in and TX have of course done brilliantly. On the Long Course the whole BIS team came in 4th place and over the short course are BIS team did even better and came 3rd! The TX medal list and high scores can be seen here. Well done TX.

BKK Day One

We all had to wake up at 5:20 to start eating breakfast at 5:30 so that the bus could arrive in time for our warm up slot at 7:20. It was quite a misty morning but that didn't put anyone off and all the TX children eagerly jumped into the pool to get ready to swim. I should say that the pool was enormous compared to our smaller pool at TX but everyone looked confident and ready to do battle!

Up first were the 100m freestyle races and all the TX children did the school proud and raced the mighty distance as fast as they can. With over 100 competitors in just that race alone it is a definite achievement that all of our TX swimmers were placed in the top 50. As you can see from the photos, below the children had to work extremely hard.

A special well done to Jeanette for being placed 6th in the 100m Backstroke. I'm very sorry for the lack of tweets during the day, but BKK Patana school don't seem to allow any guests to access their WIFI network.

I will update you all when I can.

We're here and ready to swim!

It was an early start for most of the team but we have all now made it and more importantly had a lovely buffet lunch. The children are all relaxing in their rooms while I type and shortly we will be off to the hotel swimming pool for a bit a fun before the serious swimming starts tomorrow.

I will be updating my blog at the end of the day but if you would like more recent updates I will be tweeting using my twitter account @MrMikeBIS. As soon as a medal is won I will try to tweet it!