I went to a short course Nationals many years ago (Fort Lauderdale) in which swimmers were allowed to swim both the 1000 and 1650, on the same day. Why is it that distance swimmers must choose between their 2 best events while there are 9 events of 100 yards or less? Also, it seems that distance swimmers are always required to miss the most amount of work since the 1000/1650 are always first (Thursday). I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'm not sure what the reasoning was for only allowing 1 distance event (outside of time). It seems as if they could be swum on different days as they are at USS Nationals or any USS meet for that matter. Just curious.
Blessed With No Speed
We could still do it in four days, either by moving some events to the 1st day and offering the 2nd distance event on a shorter day, or just scheduling the 2nd distance event for the day the 400 IM or 500 don't fall on. For instance, move several shorter events out of Fri, Sat, or Sunday and place the 1000 in their place. Seems like it would only add a marginal amount of time, and it would be much fairer to those who want to swim something besides 100's and 50's. What does anyone think?
We could still do it in four days, either by moving some events to the 1st day and offering the 2nd distance event on a shorter day, or just scheduling the 2nd distance event for the day the 400 IM or 500 don't fall on. For instance, move several shorter events out of Fri, Sat, or Sunday and place the 1000 in their place. Seems like it would only add a marginal amount of time, and it would be much fairer to those who want to swim something besides 100's and 50's. What does anyone think?
