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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  • Patrick, As a meet director, thank you for posting this thread and pledge. I only accept criticizism from other meet directors on my orders of events. Someone mentioned trying new events, and that is the best idea. You never know what events you may be good at, may find out you like, or may find out that you think you could be better at if you knew to train a bit for it. Just ask my wife how this has worked out for her in the last 3 years.
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  • Patrick, As a meet director, thank you for posting this thread and pledge. I only accept criticizism from other meet directors on my orders of events. Someone mentioned trying new events, and that is the best idea. You never know what events you may be good at, may find out you like, or may find out that you think you could be better at if you knew to train a bit for it. Just ask my wife how this has worked out for her in the last 3 years.
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