I was planning on heading to Omaha for summer nationals and just noticed that the 400 free, 100 back, 200 free, and 200 IM are all on the same
day - Sunday. I think most folks that swim free also swim back and IM? This is a pretty heavy load for one day. Is this just me and couldn't these events be spread across other days where it would be more evenly spread?
Pretty much every meet I'm going to this year has fly events immediately after free events. I tried at a long course meet last year to do a 200 fly immediately (less than 10 minutes) after a 100 free, and let's just say it didn't go well. Don't most people who do free also do fly? ;)
Like the post above says, it's different at nationals because there are so many swimmers you'd have a really hard time finding two races where you don't have at least a good 30 minutes to recover.
I suspect that most everyone has their own version of this, since so many people do (one thing) + (something else). I figure it's just the luck of the draw this year; in other years it will be the free + breastroke swimmers that get to try to do their events back-to-back.
Pretty much every meet I'm going to this year has fly events immediately after free events. I tried at a long course meet last year to do a 200 fly immediately (less than 10 minutes) after a 100 free, and let's just say it didn't go well. Don't most people who do free also do fly? ;)
Like the post above says, it's different at nationals because there are so many swimmers you'd have a really hard time finding two races where you don't have at least a good 30 minutes to recover.
I suspect that most everyone has their own version of this, since so many people do (one thing) + (something else). I figure it's just the luck of the draw this year; in other years it will be the free + breastroke swimmers that get to try to do their events back-to-back.
