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
Yeah, I wasn't thinking of Nats. It seems like many other meets default to women first. Just saw that on the Harvard entry form.
I've yet to be in a meet where the sexes are split up for the events. I guess there's not really enough men/women in the west/northwest to make it worth splitting up the events. It'd probably make the meets 50% or more longer in time by doing so.
One day I'll venture back East and see what this is all about. :)
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Oh yeah...I almost forgot...I accept the pledge of whatever we're all pledging on. :D
Yeah, I wasn't thinking of Nats. It seems like many other meets default to women first. Just saw that on the Harvard entry form.
I've yet to be in a meet where the sexes are split up for the events. I guess there's not really enough men/women in the west/northwest to make it worth splitting up the events. It'd probably make the meets 50% or more longer in time by doing so.
One day I'll venture back East and see what this is all about. :)
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Oh yeah...I almost forgot...I accept the pledge of whatever we're all pledging on. :D