OK, I don't have a life...I am already stoked about swimming in the IUPUI pool next August. I think I am one of the few (former) midwesterners who has not swum in that facility. Have always wanted to go to Nationals there but something always came up.
Not in 2009!!!
A bunch of us from Arizona are already planning on going. Yes, even Jeff (Short Course) Commings is going to be a part of this meet! It should be a fun and fast event. Digging the all relay day on Saturday, good job Mel and Kris!
Anybody else stoked?
Plus, you distance people like to make such a big deal out of distance. :rolleyes: You know what distance allows you to be??? Mistake prone. "Oh gee, I just screwed up that turn, ah who cares, I have 2,456,234 more turns to make up for it" or "wow, that was a horrible start, ah who cares, I'll have to swim .01 seconds faster per 50 to make up for it"
Don't get me wrong, I respect distance swimmers, don't understand them :drown:, but still respect them but how about respecting the sprinters. We don't have room for ANY mistakes. :thhbbb:
"You distance people"? We have met, right? The closest I will ever come to that might be middle distance. I didn't say I *liked* the 200 fly, but I have been known to take one for the team and do it.
PS: You want a reaction time gridge, mister? Cause that is one I don't think you are going to win.
All right. Proven wrong! Now show me a Zones meet where this has happened. At least at Nats they're getting some rest between events.
Does New Englands count? Last year: www.meetresults.com/.../results.shtml
"You distance people"? We have met, right? The closest I will ever come to that might be middle distance. I didn't say I *liked* the 200 fly, but I have been known to take one for the team and do it.
PS: You want a reaction time gridge, mister? Cause that is one I don't think you are going to win.
Sure, but let's combine it with the fastest to the 15m mark???? Or even the 10m mark? :thhbbb: There's a _reason_ why I'm the last off the block. Then again, I might just take you up on that as I have revamped my start quite a bit since Nationals :thhbbb:
Is this order for Sunday _that_ bad?
400 Free (men)
Break
50 Back/Free
200 ***
100 Fly
50 Free/Back
200 IM
I know it's hard pleasing everyone but can there at least be some sort of long term fairness for event orders? Having three events in a row is just impossible to do well, even at Nats.
It's rough but do-able. I will do the 200BR and 200IM but forgo the 100FL. That means an extra day in Indy but I will fly out early Monday morning. Boy is that going to be a painful/tired flight back to Phoenix...
On the good news side, Mark Gill won't get worked by me in the 100FL. He escapes my wrath again for another year :laugh2:
On the bright side--there's nothing compelling me to swim on Thursday, so maybe that can be travel day! I'll just need to get there in time to see if the piano drops on Michelle on the lst 50 of the 200 free!!:bliss:
Now wait just a minute! There will be no more piano dropping. Maybe next time it will be a bulldozer!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
Doesn't NE last all day like Nats?
Doesn't Zones? I'd say less time than Nats and more time than your run-of-the mill meet. About the same as it was at Boston SCM last year.
Sure, but let's combine it with the fastest to the 15m mark???? Or even the 10m mark? :thhbbb: There's a _reason_ why I'm the last off the block. Then again, I might just take you up on that as I have revamped my start quite a bit since Nationals :thhbbb:
Hm, how would the math for that one work? My race times are a LOT slower, so how do you break that out?
Anyway, I thought up a lot of _reasons_ why you might be so slow off the block, but none of them is very complimentary.
Doesn't Zones? I'd say less time than Nats and more time than your run-of-the mill meet. About the same as it was at Boston SCM last year.
Well, not CZ. Done by noon or so in LC. But, yeah, Boston SCM was pretty long. But didn't they start at almost 11:00 am one morning?!
Whatever. Obviously, people have to take things like distance of travel, order of events, etc. into consideration when selecting travel meets assuming they can't go to loads of them. I really can't go to more than one Nats a year, so I was hoping for Indy. Since it doesn't work out, I'm out of luck for 2008. It looks like there are some good kiddie LC meets in PV anyway. Not as fun as masters. I'll look for a SCM travel meet instead.
At some point, I think the long axis swimmers or the fly/free swimmers or the 5 pack freestylers can suffer and swim back to back events or give up their fav events too. Spread the love!
Um, I'm a long axis swimmer. I'm looking at the 100 back and the 100 free back-to-back on day 2 and the same 50 free/ 50 back combo on day 4. BTW, the last day of the meet is Day 5--Monday, where they have kindly added the distance events. Nothing like a 1500 at the end of a long travel meet.
All the sprinters need to stop complaining. You can swim 6 events of various sprint distances, spread out throughout the meet. Those of us that like swimming the 800 & 1500 however, have them lumped together on the same day--generally with restrictions on entering both events (i.e. having to give up one of them).
On the bright side--there's nothing compelling me to swim on Thursday, so maybe that can be travel day! I'll just need to get there in time to see if the piano drops on Michelle on the lst 50 of the 200 free!!:bliss:
