After just swimming a rockin 35+ (even if we are all older than 42) 400 medley relay, I notice that all of the relays at the nationals are sprint. Why is that? Does anyone have any historical perspective? Is it all because of the time line?
Why not run, for example, the 200 free and 400 medley relay one year, and the 400 free and 200 medley relay the next?
And what about an 800 free relay?
Phil:
NE SCY Championship we offer all five relays but do not permit people to swim single gender AND mixed relays in the same event (eg men's 800 free and mixed 800 free).
Our typical distributions of relays is 800 free on Friday. A 200 relays in the morning followed by a 400 relay as the last event on Saturday and Sunday. That seems to work well for everyone here and there is certainly no requirement that you must swim every relay. (We did swim 300+ relays at the 2002 NE SCY Championship and our surveys indicate that relays are a major draw for our meet)
Bob
PS: I thought that one LCM Nationals did offer the 400/800 relays-was it Ann Arbor?
Phil:
NE SCY Championship we offer all five relays but do not permit people to swim single gender AND mixed relays in the same event (eg men's 800 free and mixed 800 free).
Our typical distributions of relays is 800 free on Friday. A 200 relays in the morning followed by a 400 relay as the last event on Saturday and Sunday. That seems to work well for everyone here and there is certainly no requirement that you must swim every relay. (We did swim 300+ relays at the 2002 NE SCY Championship and our surveys indicate that relays are a major draw for our meet)
Bob
PS: I thought that one LCM Nationals did offer the 400/800 relays-was it Ann Arbor?
