I was just looking over the schedule for long course nationals in Auburn, AL and I see the 800 and 1500 are on the same day, as were the 1000 & mile in Mesa. Please have one race at the beginning of the meet and one at the end of the meet so distance swimmers can do all their races, thanks!
I look at it completely in reverse -- why screw up the rest of my meet by trashing myself on the 1650 on the 1st day of the meet? When I return to distance events this fall and spring, I'll almost for sure enter the 1000 on the 1st day of Nationals because it takes so much less out of me than the 1650 (primarily because I still don't train enough to effectively race either!). My preferred 4 day race format at Nationals would be something like:
Day 1 - 1000 free
Day 2 - 400 IM and 200 free
Day 3 - 500 free and 200 IM
Day 4 - 1650 free
You can easily find USAS meets that have a format similar to this ...
First, kids are bionic. I'm old and feeble.
That would actually be a reasonable meet set-up, to be honest.
I look at it completely in reverse -- why screw up the rest of my meet by trashing myself on the 1650 on the 1st day of the meet? When I return to distance events this fall and spring, I'll almost for sure enter the 1000 on the 1st day of Nationals because it takes so much less out of me than the 1650 (primarily because I still don't train enough to effectively race either!). My preferred 4 day race format at Nationals would be something like:
Day 1 - 1000 free
Day 2 - 400 IM and 200 free
Day 3 - 500 free and 200 IM
Day 4 - 1650 free
You can easily find USAS meets that have a format similar to this ...
First, kids are bionic. I'm old and feeble.
That would actually be a reasonable meet set-up, to be honest.
