I'm guilty of it. I imagine we're all guilty of it: seeing a meet announcement and seeing our favorite two events back to back, or four events we want to swim on one day and then only 1 then next day. We get irritated and wonder why the meet director couldn't have designed this to better suit our needs? We moan at workout, whine on the forums, ***** on our blogs, etc. I'd like to encourage my fellow forumites to join me in taking a pledge:
I hereby pledge to:
just be grateful that there are volunteers, teams and facilities willing to host Masters meets,
recognize that no matter how hard these dedicated volunteers try, they'll never be able to create the order of events that satisfies all Masters swimmer,
recognize that, even if I can't swim those two favorite events in this meet because they are back to back (or whatever my complaint is), I've got a multi-decade Masters career ahead of me in which to swim them at different meets,
to, therefore, stop whining/moaning about the order of events, and
look at a different order of events as an opportunity to branch out and try new events!
Signed,
Patrick "Indebted to Masters Meet Directors/Officials/Volunteers" Brundage
There is nothing remotely beneficial about a sprinter training for or competing in 200 buststrokes.
Yeah, I had to figure that out the hard way... I thought could train all three breaststroke events and improve all three, but, no can do; at least not effectively. King Frog is the only one I know who can be that good in the 100 and 50 breaststroke- and break the WR in the 200! :bow:
I have been training, lately, for the 50 and 100 and will only compete in the 200 for "fun" :afraid:. (I pledge not to care about my times in the 200 breaststroke. :bolt:)
Now, back to the thread ( :hijack: ), Patrick, I'm with you on this. I agree; we are fortunate to have volunteers who organize and run these meets for us. And, there will always be swimmers who will be unhappy with the event order (including me). But, I pledge not to whine about it.
There is nothing remotely beneficial about a sprinter training for or competing in 200 buststrokes.
Yeah, I had to figure that out the hard way... I thought could train all three breaststroke events and improve all three, but, no can do; at least not effectively. King Frog is the only one I know who can be that good in the 100 and 50 breaststroke- and break the WR in the 200! :bow:
I have been training, lately, for the 50 and 100 and will only compete in the 200 for "fun" :afraid:. (I pledge not to care about my times in the 200 breaststroke. :bolt:)
Now, back to the thread ( :hijack: ), Patrick, I'm with you on this. I agree; we are fortunate to have volunteers who organize and run these meets for us. And, there will always be swimmers who will be unhappy with the event order (including me). But, I pledge not to whine about it.
