This thread is in response to Jim Thorton's thread about his AA time being disallowed.I think that if a swimmer swims in a USMS sanctioned meet and that the time gets to the "official" Top Ten list that it should count.Otherwise one could go back and check the length of ,say the Amarillo pool from the first Masters Nationals and if it was 1 cm short disallow the swims.There must be a statute of limitations and I think it should be when the official TT times are posted.
Jim you may appreciate this: there is a flip side to this phenomenon and possibly it is more common (Anna Lea can say for sure): vanity aging. That's when (usually middle-aged) swimmers enter a younger age than their actual years.
It puts them at a competitive disadvantage with respect to swimming achievements but perhaps they are interested in something other than TT rankings...
One of the humorous events I remember from the master's club I swam with 30 years ago was a then 50-ish female club member who did exactly this. As a 20-something at the time I thought it was pretty funny that somebody would do that. Now that I'm approaching 60, I still don't particularly understand the motivation, but am much more empathetic to it.
On subject, how difficult would it be for the TT recorders to not post swims from pools that don't meet USMS measurement requirements? It seems that Jim's case would have been better handled if the swim wasn't in the preliminary TT list because the pool didn't meet USMS requirements, giving him the opportunity to either work to get the measurements/paperwork submitted or find out that the swim wouldn't count at a much better point in the process.
Jim you may appreciate this: there is a flip side to this phenomenon and possibly it is more common (Anna Lea can say for sure): vanity aging. That's when (usually middle-aged) swimmers enter a younger age than their actual years.
It puts them at a competitive disadvantage with respect to swimming achievements but perhaps they are interested in something other than TT rankings...
One of the humorous events I remember from the master's club I swam with 30 years ago was a then 50-ish female club member who did exactly this. As a 20-something at the time I thought it was pretty funny that somebody would do that. Now that I'm approaching 60, I still don't particularly understand the motivation, but am much more empathetic to it.
On subject, how difficult would it be for the TT recorders to not post swims from pools that don't meet USMS measurement requirements? It seems that Jim's case would have been better handled if the swim wasn't in the preliminary TT list because the pool didn't meet USMS requirements, giving him the opportunity to either work to get the measurements/paperwork submitted or find out that the swim wouldn't count at a much better point in the process.
