Colonies Zone SCY Championships - Fairfax VA

If it's true that some of the swimmers are entering the 1000 with times of 1 hour and 45 minutes, perhaps there is another solution you could try. Assuming many of the Team Z participants really are triathletes, why not offer them the chance to swim in groups in the same lane? They could practice drafting and jostling about for position, which are skills required in triathlon swimming. I do feel really bad for guys like Tom Patterson, who are distance beasts and don't have that many opportunities to swim the 1000 or 1650 along with the other events in a really good racing pool not too far away from where he lives. Anyhow, maybe it's not too late for someone diplomatic (Jeff or Muppet) to call up the Team Z captain and see if some of the swimmers would be willing to share a lane. If so, maybe some more spots could open up for the Tom's and Betsy's and other Zones regulars whose presence will be missed by us CZ regulars! Great post, Jim and thanks! Personally, I am not that upset since I don't have the beastly conditioning for those events right now. Alot of nationally ranked distance times are done at that meet. You might have a killer 1000 1st heat like they had 2 years ago. GMU is a great pool have a season best distance swim and quite a few nationally ranked times come out of that Friday distance session. It is a shame that Team Z went all "rogue" or something.

If it's true that some of the swimmers are entering the 1000 with times of 1 hour and 45 minutes, perhaps there is another solution you could try. Assuming many of the Team Z participants really are triathletes, why not offer them the chance to swim in groups in the same lane? They could practice drafting and jostling about for position, which are skills required in triathlon swimming. I do feel really bad for guys like Tom Patterson, who are distance beasts and don't have that many opportunities to swim the 1000 or 1650 along with the other events in a really good racing pool not too far away from where he lives. Anyhow, maybe it's not too late for someone diplomatic (Jeff or Muppet) to call up the Team Z captain and see if some of the swimmers would be willing to share a lane. If so, maybe some more spots could open up for the Tom's and Betsy's and other Zones regulars whose presence will be missed by us CZ regulars! Great post, Jim and thanks! Personally, I am not that upset since I don't have the beastly conditioning for those events right now. Alot of nationally ranked distance times are done at that meet. You might have a killer 1000 1st heat like they had 2 years ago. GMU is a great pool have a season best distance swim and quite a few nationally ranked times come out of that Friday distance session. It is a shame that Team Z went all "rogue" or something.