Fort Worth Do The Olympics: Swimming

Wow - there are a lot of swimming events! We decided to join the TCU swimming pool for a month over the summer of 2014 to work on getting all of them accomplished. We met once or twice a week and completed these events at our own pace. Some of us are much more comfortable in the water than others, but everyone did great and we got to enjoy some time outside during the month of July - not something that happens a lot in Texas!

Some info about Olympic women's swimming:
Swimming has been a sport at every modern Summer Olympics. It has been open to women since 1912. Along with track & field athletics and gymnastics it is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Games and the one with the second largest number of events (after Athletics).
The women's events:
Freestyle - 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m
Backstroke - 100m, 200m
Breaststroke - 100m, 200m
Butterfly - 100m, 200m
Individual Medley - 200m, 400m
Relays - 4x100m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle, 4x100m medley
Marathon - 10km

M did complete the marathon on her own, over the course of our visits. The rest of us decided we would combine our freestyle swimming to cover it. None of us quite thought doing it all in one session would be wise!