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?
You had to go and spoil it, didn't you?
I'm curious now what the rationale for this rule is. Why can't someone swim four events in a day?
Many years ago our medical advisors suggested we put a limit on the number of individual events per day at masters meets. However, the limit is only for individual events and swimmers may swim each relay so to me that's not very consistent. Anyway, the rulebook limit of five individual events per day applies to all sanctioned masters meets (any meet may further limit that number but may not increase it). At Nationals the limit was reduced to three per day partly for health considerations but primarily because of what Jim said above.
Jeff
You had to go and spoil it, didn't you?
I'm curious now what the rationale for this rule is. Why can't someone swim four events in a day?
Many years ago our medical advisors suggested we put a limit on the number of individual events per day at masters meets. However, the limit is only for individual events and swimmers may swim each relay so to me that's not very consistent. Anyway, the rulebook limit of five individual events per day applies to all sanctioned masters meets (any meet may further limit that number but may not increase it). At Nationals the limit was reduced to three per day partly for health considerations but primarily because of what Jim said above.
Jeff
