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
Nationals is a bit different, they tend to be huge, and there's usually enough heats to get plenty of rest on back to back races.
Right. That's why I think data from Nationals would be the best for a study like this--people are more likely to swim the events they want to swim rather than the events they can swim due to the event order. Not to mention there are so many swimmers at Nationals and the data is readily available.
It would be nice if we could enter more than 6 individual races at Nats
why not 8 or 9
Length of the meet is the obvious answer.
Nationals is a bit different, they tend to be huge, and there's usually enough heats to get plenty of rest on back to back races.
Right. That's why I think data from Nationals would be the best for a study like this--people are more likely to swim the events they want to swim rather than the events they can swim due to the event order. Not to mention there are so many swimmers at Nationals and the data is readily available.
It would be nice if we could enter more than 6 individual races at Nats
why not 8 or 9
Length of the meet is the obvious answer.
