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!
As it seems the reason for restriciting the distancers to 1 of those events is to ensure the meet runs within a reasonable timeframe, has anyone ever thought how it would affect the length of the meet if you restricted the sprinters so they had to choose betweeen the 50 free and 100 free? Those events may be shorter in distance, but have many more heats :worms::bolt:
Check out the timeline for Mesa and you can answer this question:
www.usms.org/.../timeline.pdf
Even with more heats AND forcing d-types to choose, the sprint events took much less time than the distance events.
As it seems the reason for restriciting the distancers to 1 of those events is to ensure the meet runs within a reasonable timeframe, has anyone ever thought how it would affect the length of the meet if you restricted the sprinters so they had to choose betweeen the 50 free and 100 free? Those events may be shorter in distance, but have many more heats :worms::bolt:
Check out the timeline for Mesa and you can answer this question:
www.usms.org/.../timeline.pdf
Even with more heats AND forcing d-types to choose, the sprint events took much less time than the distance events.
