Looking ahead to 2012, they have posters here in Sweden about the next FINA Masters to be held in Riccione, Italy. I went there when they held it in 2004 and had a great time. The dates are June 2-16, 2012.
Not sure bout the men, but in 2004' and 2000- i competed against ex olmpians from europe. The US team was not as big as this year.
Swim your own race and dont worry about what you cannot control- which is what my coach would say.
Just be glad zubero isnt going
When I was entering, a warning message popped up alerting me that "the time you entered is faster then the listed world record. Are you sure this is your time?" I think those swimmers that entered really fast times knew exactly what they were doing.
When I was entering, a warning message popped up alerting me that "the time you entered is faster then the listed world record. Are you sure this is your time?" I think those swimmers that entered really fast times knew exactly what they were doing.
:bow: Laura, no one's going to question your times!!
Someday, I'd love to enter my real time and have that message pop up. I'm going with the out-live and out-last strategy as I don't think the out-fast approach is going to work in the near term.
The Accreditation Center will be open May 31st from 2pm.
Opening hours daily from 8 am to 8 pm. Extended opening hours to 9.30 PM on June 15/16 for late arrivals for OW competition ;)
See you here in Riccione!
Just figured out that the 800 Free for women will be at least 12 hours
There are 571 entries for women. better bring good reading material.
I will they have an internet cafe on site?? or close by?
Nadine- werent' you there in 2004 as well?
no internet cafe near the pool . the pool is up on the hill from town. (unless they are bringing in some sort of stand)
sorry couldn't make it this time.
everybody swim fast.
:applaud:
Just figured out that the 800 Free for women will be at least 12 hours
There are 571 entries for women. better bring good reading material.
I will they have an internet cafe on site?? or close by?
yeah i have jokingly told some of my friends that i hope to swim my 800 on sunday and not monday at 1am. which might actually happen!
maybe i should have pulled a kurt dickson and entered in 12min to be in the 1st set of heats. lol not bagging on you kurt. :D
685 for the men!
i am 641.
a rough estimate says i will swim sometime between 11 and 13hrs after the start of the event.
and check out the 225 heats of the mens 100 free. yes, think about that. 2200 men in just 1 event. now think about this. if all of them want to warmup (at the same time let's say) and we use a 10 lane pool. that is 220 per lane. if everyone can go a 1:50 per 100 (110secs) then we only have to have 2 people in the same second in each lane. and with each person being more than 1 sec long.........well i'm sure this will be interesting to say the least. never mind the other events wanting to warmup.
or to put this into perspective. there are 400 more men in the 100 free than were total people (men & women) at greensboro! or almost twice as many as are going to omaha.
a useful tool by a Dutch master swimmer to estimate your heat time
a little skillfulness needed in using excel filters
www.psvmasters.nl/HHH.shtml
WMC Riccione (ITA)
Estimated Starting Times for the WMC 2012 Swimming in Riccione (ITA)
. Note this is an optimal schedule, in practice it will most likely be later. But you can refer to earlier starters to calculate the delay during the day.