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!
Jeff, What about a tougher qualifying time to limit the numbers that want to swim both. Eliminate the distance events from the events that you can swim without a QT. You can get the numbers down to a manageable level. It's a national championship not a zone meet.
Also, some meets do in fact require an NQT for a distance event (Auburn - 1500m). I think above you are suggestion the NQT should be required for either and then if somebody wants to swim both they have to meet a tigher NQT still. These are plausible ideas to allow some swimmers to do both but they come at the expense of discriminating against slower distance swimmers. I hear what you are saying that this Nationals and not a Zone/local meet. But we are also not USA-S and we do our best to accommodate all.
Also, there is a rule on the books that says the 400/500 cannot be the day after the distance day. This was put in place because too many distance swimmers complained about coming back the next day to swim the 400/500 free. That is why the 400 IM is usually on Friday (day after distance day). So I find it odd that some distance freestylers can't come back and do that double yet others say they can do both 800/1000 and 1500/1650 on the same day? :dunno:
Jeff
Jeff, What about a tougher qualifying time to limit the numbers that want to swim both. Eliminate the distance events from the events that you can swim without a QT. You can get the numbers down to a manageable level. It's a national championship not a zone meet.
Also, some meets do in fact require an NQT for a distance event (Auburn - 1500m). I think above you are suggestion the NQT should be required for either and then if somebody wants to swim both they have to meet a tigher NQT still. These are plausible ideas to allow some swimmers to do both but they come at the expense of discriminating against slower distance swimmers. I hear what you are saying that this Nationals and not a Zone/local meet. But we are also not USA-S and we do our best to accommodate all.
Also, there is a rule on the books that says the 400/500 cannot be the day after the distance day. This was put in place because too many distance swimmers complained about coming back the next day to swim the 400/500 free. That is why the 400 IM is usually on Friday (day after distance day). So I find it odd that some distance freestylers can't come back and do that double yet others say they can do both 800/1000 and 1500/1650 on the same day? :dunno:
Jeff
