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?
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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
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.
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.
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.
