OK, it may be over a year away but why not start a thread on 2011 Short Course (Spring) Nationals? This meet will be held at the newly-renovated Kino Aquatics Center in Mesa, which is just east of Phoenix. So go ahead and pipe in, I'm sure we will get some good conversation flowing.
If my last event on Saturday is 50 Breaststroke (event 26), would I be safe to book a return flight at 5:00pm?While a timeline will be published, you'll probably need to book your flight (especially with what's happening with airfares these days) before that comes out. If I were you, I'd look at the timelines from Atlanta and Clovis (links below) and build an estimated timeline for this meet. I would imagine that the meet numbers are going to be in the range of those meets and certainly not larger. The order of events is different, but it shouldn't be hard to estimate a Mesa timeline from these data.
www.usms.org/.../timeline.pdfwww.usms.org/.../timeline.pdf
If you are renting car from the Phoenix airport, though, make sure to budget enough time. Like most big city airports, we have one of those off airport centralized parking structures that absurdly make it a pain-in-the-*** for our visitors to arrive and depart when renting a car.
If my last event on Saturday is 50 Breaststroke (event 26), would I be safe to book a return flight at 5:00pm?While a timeline will be published, you'll probably need to book your flight (especially with what's happening with airfares these days) before that comes out. If I were you, I'd look at the timelines from Atlanta and Clovis (links below) and build an estimated timeline for this meet. I would imagine that the meet numbers are going to be in the range of those meets and certainly not larger. The order of events is different, but it shouldn't be hard to estimate a Mesa timeline from these data.
www.usms.org/.../timeline.pdfwww.usms.org/.../timeline.pdf
If you are renting car from the Phoenix airport, though, make sure to budget enough time. Like most big city airports, we have one of those off airport centralized parking structures that absurdly make it a pain-in-the-*** for our visitors to arrive and depart when renting a car.