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
So for good event order, here are the rules as I understand them from recent threads:
No two events of the same stroke back to back (e.g. 50 *** and 100 ***)
No two events of the same distance back to back (e.g. 100 back and 100 fly)
No 50's back to back with the 100 IM or 100 free
No 100's back to back with the 200 IM
No 200's back to back with the 400 IM
Distance events of 400+ should be spaced apart
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Please pick apart any problems that you see with this one-day meet schedule that I just created from scratch:
200 fly
100 back
200 ***
50 free
200 IM
50 fly
200 back
50 ***
400 IM
100 free
100 fly
50 back
100 ***
200 free
100 IM
So for good event order, here are the rules as I understand them from recent threads:
No two events of the same stroke back to back (e.g. 50 *** and 100 ***)
No two events of the same distance back to back (e.g. 100 back and 100 fly)
No 50's back to back with the 100 IM or 100 free
No 100's back to back with the 200 IM
No 200's back to back with the 400 IM
Distance events of 400+ should be spaced apart
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Please pick apart any problems that you see with this one-day meet schedule that I just created from scratch:
200 fly
100 back
200 ***
50 free
200 IM
50 fly
200 back
50 ***
400 IM
100 free
100 fly
50 back
100 ***
200 free
100 IM