Looks like it is to gain 20 minutes of rest before doing the 400 IM.
What do you folks think? Fair play or not?
I say anyone attempting the 1650 and 400 IM back to back deserves some slack.
We had a swimmer on my college team that fairly regularly doubled the 1000 and 200 frees. She had to race to win some of those 1000's, though, so our coach would put someone else in the 1000 to swim it fairly slow and give her some recovery time in between. Was never an issue with other coaches or swimmers as far as I remember.
It's a tough double either way, but I think the guys have a tougher double between the two sexes. Women swim the 1000 first, then wait for the 10-11 minutes of the Men's 1000 before they swim the 200 Free. Men swim the 1000 Free, wait the 2-3 minutes of the Women's 200 Free, and then it's go time again.
Maybe I'm just whining now...I'll go home. :)
We had a swimmer on my college team that fairly regularly doubled the 1000 and 200 frees. She had to race to win some of those 1000's, though, so our coach would put someone else in the 1000 to swim it fairly slow and give her some recovery time in between. Was never an issue with other coaches or swimmers as far as I remember.
It's a tough double either way, but I think the guys have a tougher double between the two sexes. Women swim the 1000 first, then wait for the 10-11 minutes of the Men's 1000 before they swim the 200 Free. Men swim the 1000 Free, wait the 2-3 minutes of the Women's 200 Free, and then it's go time again.
Maybe I'm just whining now...I'll go home. :)
