If done well (who generally requies a good referee, and a good timing console operator), start-over-finish can get you down to about 10 seconds or less between heats. At our NE SCY champs, we had some people who (out of curiosity) were timing between our heats, and we were apparently down in the 6-7 second range between heats. That's a lot of time savings over 30-45 seconds between heats.
All modern electronic timing systems have a setting to automatically keep the touchpads dis-armed for the first XX seconds of a race to allow for this feature.
In masters meets, if you need a little extra time to get out of the pool (such as if you need to be able to get to the ladder at the side), usually they'll ask you to let the referee know _before_ your heat, so they can allow some extra time.
I'm not sure why it couldn't be done in 50 events as well, though.
-Rick
If done well (who generally requies a good referee, and a good timing console operator), start-over-finish can get you down to about 10 seconds or less between heats. At our NE SCY champs, we had some people who (out of curiosity) were timing between our heats, and we were apparently down in the 6-7 second range between heats. That's a lot of time savings over 30-45 seconds between heats.
All modern electronic timing systems have a setting to automatically keep the touchpads dis-armed for the first XX seconds of a race to allow for this feature.
In masters meets, if you need a little extra time to get out of the pool (such as if you need to be able to get to the ladder at the side), usually they'll ask you to let the referee know _before_ your heat, so they can allow some extra time.
I'm not sure why it couldn't be done in 50 events as well, though.
-Rick
