Awesome
Heat 102 at 9:45pm
It ended at 10:30 with Heat 130. (I had to stay to the bitter end to take measurements of the indoor pool so the times would count for USMS.)
Warmup is essentially nonexistent. The only exception is to use the 25m pool during the pre-meet warmup. But we proly won't swim until mid-afternoon tomorrow, so that's of limited help.
The stands were absolutely packed even at 10 pm for the swimming, never seen anything like it. Lots of Italian breaststrokers (with friends cheering), seems like some heats had 8-9 ITA swimmers.
I just don't see Montreal with 6000. Where would they come from? How many masters swimmers in Canada? Roughly 3000 swimmers here are Italian, more than have ever attended a USMS nationals, and about the same number from other European countries. Worlds at Stanford was within driving distance of the two most populous LMSCs in USMS and didn't come close to 6000.
I mIght be wrong, of course. One doesn't come to such a meet with the primary goal of swimming fast, IMO.
Awesome
Heat 102 at 9:45pm
It ended at 10:30 with Heat 130. (I had to stay to the bitter end to take measurements of the indoor pool so the times would count for USMS.)
Warmup is essentially nonexistent. The only exception is to use the 25m pool during the pre-meet warmup. But we proly won't swim until mid-afternoon tomorrow, so that's of limited help.
The stands were absolutely packed even at 10 pm for the swimming, never seen anything like it. Lots of Italian breaststrokers (with friends cheering), seems like some heats had 8-9 ITA swimmers.
I just don't see Montreal with 6000. Where would they come from? How many masters swimmers in Canada? Roughly 3000 swimmers here are Italian, more than have ever attended a USMS nationals, and about the same number from other European countries. Worlds at Stanford was within driving distance of the two most populous LMSCs in USMS and didn't come close to 6000.
I mIght be wrong, of course. One doesn't come to such a meet with the primary goal of swimming fast, IMO.
