I just swam in a local masters meet that had 31 events.
Warmup at 7 am - the 500 at 8am & then the rest of the meet at 9 am till about 3 pm.
Is this typical for meets around the country?
All strokes had 50 - 100 - 200 distances including the 100 - 200 - 400 IM.
7 relays as well.
Many swimmers had left the meet by 1:30 or so.
Each event had a male & a female race in each event.
Any ideas as how to shorten the time line of this meet?
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
