Pledge: No More Order of Events Whining

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
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  • Former Member
    Former Member
    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 No one in our local meets ever enters the 200 back. Otherwise a good attempt :D
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  • Former Member
    Former Member
    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 No one in our local meets ever enters the 200 back. Otherwise a good attempt :D
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