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
I reserve the right to whine when I feel people are picking on us poor breaststrokers.I have also joined complaints by backstrokers and butterflyers when they were "discriminated" against so don't get "strokist"on me.
The guideline is simple,you divide the meet into sections and make sure that no 2 events of the same stroke in the same section.
For a butterflyer or breaststroker wanting good times in all 3 events there needs to be appropriate spacing.You can't get splits because there are no other options for when to get the other times as swimming fly in a free event is still free,not fly.A backstroker has more options for splits with the IMs and relays,but the point still stands.
No splits for backstrokers on IMs. You must mean flyers. And many of us don't have relay options.
In a national meet, the strokes are always separated. Can't do that in a 1 or 2 day meet. But there is virtually always adequate time between same stroke events. Where the problem comes in is that not that many masters are pure 1 stroke stars. So, for example, some who aren't sprinters will skip the 50 and some who aren't D types skip the 200 and look for other events. And if you swim all 4 strokes, which I do, there are often conflicts.
The 6 pack freestyler on the other hand rarely has a complaint except that they can't swim both the 1000 and 1650 at nationals, separately.
I don't think Allen took the pledge, Geek.
And why do women always have to swim first?
I reserve the right to whine when I feel people are picking on us poor breaststrokers.I have also joined complaints by backstrokers and butterflyers when they were "discriminated" against so don't get "strokist"on me.
The guideline is simple,you divide the meet into sections and make sure that no 2 events of the same stroke in the same section.
For a butterflyer or breaststroker wanting good times in all 3 events there needs to be appropriate spacing.You can't get splits because there are no other options for when to get the other times as swimming fly in a free event is still free,not fly.A backstroker has more options for splits with the IMs and relays,but the point still stands.
No splits for backstrokers on IMs. You must mean flyers. And many of us don't have relay options.
In a national meet, the strokes are always separated. Can't do that in a 1 or 2 day meet. But there is virtually always adequate time between same stroke events. Where the problem comes in is that not that many masters are pure 1 stroke stars. So, for example, some who aren't sprinters will skip the 50 and some who aren't D types skip the 200 and look for other events. And if you swim all 4 strokes, which I do, there are often conflicts.
The 6 pack freestyler on the other hand rarely has a complaint except that they can't swim both the 1000 and 1650 at nationals, separately.
I don't think Allen took the pledge, Geek.
And why do women always have to swim first?
