Greensboro Nats - Who's In?

Thanks for the link, Rob. Yes, looks very straight forward for anyone who can operate a measuring tape. :) Sounds like you are my assistant Kirk! Thanks for signing up!! :applaud:

It is bizarre to have different standards than FINA.Short Course Yards 18 – 24 year olds allowed in Masters Ages based on actual birth dates Relays determined by the age of the youngest swimmers It may be bizarre to have different standards, but I’ll fight long and hard to keep Yards and 18 to 24 year olds. But back to Greensboro Nats… I hope to be there so I can swim both the 1000 and 1650 :bliss:

I've got the hotel room booked and car organized ... just need to figure out when I'm going to pull the trigger on flights and where I'm going to fly into: CLT Pros: direct flights, high likelihood of upgrade, no cramped regional jets Cons: Geek will give me crap about coming through his town and not working out with him again GSO Pros: closest, most logical Cons: most expensive (all things considered), connections RDU Pros: where I'm staying pre & post-meet Cons: only Southwest flies direct ... not a comfortable long-haul option Probably a few are wondering about these options so I will chime in. The Greensboro airport is obviously the closest option. I suspect flights are limited. Gboro used to be an extremely cheap option but that may have now changed. The airport is very close to the pool and hotels. Pretty much everything in Gboro is close to each other. RDU is a very easy 1 hour, give or take, drive from Gboro. If no traffic, probably about 45 minutes max. Charlotte is not at all close. It is about 1:45 from CLT to Gboro and it takes you through all of Charlotte traffic and some notoriously rough interstate stretches where there is major construction. I would say if you can plan your trip to drive to Gboro from CLT mid day or after rush hour that would be fine. Any of you that don't use forum obliterating childish fonts that fly into CLT and don't look me up will be more dead to me than pwb, the great CLT avoider. While I think it is a step in the right direction to allow both the 1000 and 1650 I can't imagine being able to swim both of those with any sort of quality on the same day. I mean, it's not as hard as the 50 free and 50 fly on separate days but it is right up there.

Short Course Yards 18 – 24 year olds allowed in Masters Ages based on actual birth dates Relays determined by the age of the youngest swimmers It may be bizarre to have different standards, but I’ll fight long and hard to keep Yards and 18 to 24 year olds. Well, yards is our own little fiefdom that doesn't conflict with anything in FINA. The measurement rule is in direct conflict for SCM and LCM.

Sounds like you are my assistant Kirk! Thanks for signing up!! :applaud: It sounds like the way to make sure it gets done is to do it ourselves, so I'll definitely do it if necessary.

It sounds like the way to make sure it gets done is to do it ourselves, so I'll definitely do it if necessary. Others will appreciate it as well. Maybe they'll even get you a :chug:!!

I'm NOT going to Greensboro, wherever the heck that is!! :) All the cool people will be in Kelowna--wherever the heck that is. maps.google.com/maps

All the cool people will be in Kelowna--wherever the heck that is. maps.google.com/maps And we'll have a few USMS folks from Cd'A, Idaho along with us too. One of them will probably be setting a few WRs in the female 25-29 age group too! :applaud:

My dad, my daughter, and I all plan to be there.

:hijack: I just measured our town's pool with the form mentioned above, and used the steel tape. Even though it was built in the 70's, it is amazing that each lane was not exactly 75 feet (each was over by 1-2 inches). Our masters mini meet is the same weekend as Nat's, so I won't be going. As for now, :popcorn: That is good because that extra inch is used for the touchpads.