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, I've never seen an entry form that had the ability to specify hours. Just minutes, seconds, and hundredths. So someone would have to submit 105 minutes to be entered with that time. It seems like a typo to me. Why? Consider: at an ironman distance triathlon, the cutoff to complete the 2.4 mile swim is 2 hours and 20 minutes, basically 1 mph. If you can't do 1 mph, they may have to pull you out of the water. So that's the baseline for swimming proficiency. 1 mph is about 3:25 per 100 yards. 105 minutes for 1000 yards is over 10 minutes per 100, or roughly three times slower than the baseline. Someone who is actually going that slow might not know how to swim. Or they might be over 90 years old. Or they didn't know what to enter and went with a ridiculously high estimate. Or they just made a typo...

If it's true that some of the swimmers are entering the 1000 with times of 1 hour and 45 minutes, I've never seen an entry form that had the ability to specify hours. Just minutes, seconds, and hundredths. So someone would have to submit 105 minutes to be entered with that time. It seems like a typo to me. Why? Consider: at an ironman distance triathlon, the cutoff to complete the 2.4 mile swim is 2 hours and 20 minutes, basically 1 mph. If you can't do 1 mph, they may have to pull you out of the water. So that's the baseline for swimming proficiency. 1 mph is about 3:25 per 100 yards. 105 minutes for 1000 yards is over 10 minutes per 100, or roughly three times slower than the baseline. Someone who is actually going that slow might not know how to swim. Or they might be over 90 years old. Or they didn't know what to enter and went with a ridiculously high estimate. Or they just made a typo...