How many events at a meet?

RE: How many events at a meet?

orca1946 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:24:09 GMT

4 - 5 hours seems like a nice time frame.

RE: How many events at a meet?

Kevin in MD — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:11:57 GMT

Our local meet series is once per month. All events are mixed. We will have every event under the 500 at the championship meet coming up. It will last about 4.5 hours. Most of the local series meets don't have the 500 and only have one stroke event of 200, it rotates every month. Those meets are quicker.

RE: How many events at a meet?

orca1946 — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:58:09 GMT

The 500 was + check in. 5 event rule was in place. Our coach had us in some of the last 3 events of which 2 were relays.

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Michael Heather — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:10:18 GMT

Southern Pacific often has meets similar to this. The 500 would be a positive check in and all other events are seeded by time (no sex or age separation). Since everyone is limited to 5 individual events, it is a good way to engineer rest into the meet and offer every event. We rarely have all of the relays (unless it is a relay or championship meet), but sometimes have one or two of the long ones.

RE: How many events at a meet?

knelson — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:27:03 GMT

I think they will lose entries for next year due to the length of this meet. This is just silly. If the meet is too long, just enter events in the first half of the program. I do this all the time.

RE: How many events at a meet?

Former Member — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:53:13 GMT

Some of these meets have all the events to allow people time to get qualifying times/current times for championships or to get best times while tapered in lieu of champs. Deck seeding + positive checkin Bullpen seeding for distance events (all entrants report to ready bench at heat 1, then seed fast to slow depending on who reported in) Combine men + womens heats

RE: How many events at a meet?

Celestial — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:16:12 GMT

You must have not had very many entries & not very much rest! I can't imagine doing EVERY event except the 1650 in 7 hours, unless there was only one heat for each gender!

RE: How many events at a meet?

gigi — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:05:39 GMT

Unless a meet is specifically billed as a mini-meet, I figure I'll be there all day and plan accordingly. For the number of events offered, I don't think this meet seems overly long at all.

RE: How many events at a meet?

orca1946 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:54:46 GMT

I think they will lose entries for next year due to the length of this meet.

RE: How many events at a meet?

Former Member — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:00:44 GMT

Our local meets don't offer relays. All events 200 & longer are mixed gender. Also if there are only a couple of entries in an event, they will swim men & women together. The total meet time for the one run at the end of Feb, including warm-up and 1000 free (at the end) was about 4 hours.

RE: How many events at a meet?

knelson — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:52:24 GMT

Fly-over starts Limit the number of entries in the 500 Positive check-in for all events to reduce the number of heats needed

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jaadams1 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:28:49 GMT

All of our meets in the NW are mixed gender. My only masters meet that was separated has been at Nationals.

RE: How many events at a meet?

orca1946 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:56:23 GMT

For the relays, there were some heats of only 2 - 3 relays because of gender specific teams.

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osterber — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:01:41 GMT

Seems like a short meet. :-) Our meet has all events (through the 1650 free), and all 5 standard relays offered. It takes about 32-33 hours over 4 days. :-) -Rick

RE: How many events at a meet?

Allen Stark — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:36:43 GMT

I have never been to a one day meet that swam men and women separately.I wouldn't limit the number of entries but I agree with the other ideas.

RE: How many events at a meet?

aquageek — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:00:47 GMT

Fly-over starts Limit the number of entries in the 500 Positive check-in for all events to reduce the number of heats needed Mixed sex on the 500 and have heat 2 only run lanes 2-8. Put your slowest 500 entrant in heat 1/lane 1 and start heat 2 while he/she is still going. But, I've seen many meets last much longer than yours and it seem fairly reasonable.