The 50 free and 50 fly are on the same day. I went back ten years and that's never been done. What is the sense of that? And they're only separated by a single, 100 yard event. There are a lot of people who swim both.
I am not sure if your concern is over the choice to have these two events on the same day or your concern about rest between these two events.
FWIW I just took entries from Oregon and seeded them using the Minn Order of Events to use as a crude estimate. There is 2 hours and 58 minutes between the first heat of the Men's 50 fly and the first heat of the Men's 50 free (or roughly 3 hours between the two swims for anybody in the same age group). Granted Oregon was an unusually large meet, but I would think there should at least be a couple hours between those swims. Keep in mind for Summer Nationals having two events separated by "only a single event" actually means separated by 2 because we have to alternate genders.
Jeff
The 50 free and 50 fly are on the same day. I went back ten years and that's never been done. What is the sense of that? And they're only separated by a single, 100 yard event. There are a lot of people who swim both.
I am not sure if your concern is over the choice to have these two events on the same day or your concern about rest between these two events.
FWIW I just took entries from Oregon and seeded them using the Minn Order of Events to use as a crude estimate. There is 2 hours and 58 minutes between the first heat of the Men's 50 fly and the first heat of the Men's 50 free (or roughly 3 hours between the two swims for anybody in the same age group). Granted Oregon was an unusually large meet, but I would think there should at least be a couple hours between those swims. Keep in mind for Summer Nationals having two events separated by "only a single event" actually means separated by 2 because we have to alternate genders.
Jeff
