I thought warm-up at Atlanta was bad. That looks horrible.
It was a little better today (for me at least) in the outdoor arena (are there more lanes maybe? Didn't check.) It wasn't enough to be able to do 25s sprint or -- heavens forbid -- pace 50s, but I could sometimes get enough of a gap to do something like 10m bursts or hard SDKs, which can help with warmup.
Also, the sychro swimmers were practicing outdoors, so there was that.
I think tomorrow morning in the indoor pool is going to be the worst. 280+ heats of men's 50 free. That's about 2800 men -- and male sprinters tend to be large and make many waves -- warming up or warming down in a 4-hr block.
Today there were 29 heats of men's 200 free in my age group (45-49) alone. Yowza. I saw on the screen when heat 50 or so was swimming and saw the ages, and panicked because I thought I had mis-remembered my heat (71): no way, I thought, were there THAT many heats in my age group.
I think more than 3000 are italians
Guessing more like 4500
It really sucks having the women at basically a different venue. No idea when they race or how they are doing just a wave or a smile is about all you can get in.
I read somewhere that 40% of the swimmers were Italian, so that comes to about 3300 or so I think. But maybe I am not remembering right.
I wish they had odd heats in one pool and even heats in the other. As it is, the women's events finish much earlier than the men's, and the men's warmup pool is possibly more crowded since there are more of them here.
I thought warm-up at Atlanta was bad. That looks horrible.
It was a little better today (for me at least) in the outdoor arena (are there more lanes maybe? Didn't check.) It wasn't enough to be able to do 25s sprint or -- heavens forbid -- pace 50s, but I could sometimes get enough of a gap to do something like 10m bursts or hard SDKs, which can help with warmup.
Also, the sychro swimmers were practicing outdoors, so there was that.
I think tomorrow morning in the indoor pool is going to be the worst. 280+ heats of men's 50 free. That's about 2800 men -- and male sprinters tend to be large and make many waves -- warming up or warming down in a 4-hr block.
Today there were 29 heats of men's 200 free in my age group (45-49) alone. Yowza. I saw on the screen when heat 50 or so was swimming and saw the ages, and panicked because I thought I had mis-remembered my heat (71): no way, I thought, were there THAT many heats in my age group.
I think more than 3000 are italians
Guessing more like 4500
It really sucks having the women at basically a different venue. No idea when they race or how they are doing just a wave or a smile is about all you can get in.
I read somewhere that 40% of the swimmers were Italian, so that comes to about 3300 or so I think. But maybe I am not remembering right.
I wish they had odd heats in one pool and even heats in the other. As it is, the women's events finish much earlier than the men's, and the men's warmup pool is possibly more crowded since there are more of them here.
