According to the mymsc.ca website, the 2014 Canadian Nationals will be May 16-19 (Friday-Monday) in Windsor, Ontario, at the brand-new Windsor International Aquatic and Training Centre, aka the Family Aquatic Complex. Windsor is about a half hour's drive from the Detroit airport. I've heard the meet is LCM, though I can't verify it.
I also can't verify the event order! Which events on which days? Apparently it's not published yet? Is it known from experience? Does anyone know for sure or have a guess? Thanks.
Add me to the list of people who would be willing to swim 2 per lane in a long course national meet if it allowed me to swim both the 1500 and 800!
At Greensboro SC Nationals they allowed people to swim both 1000 and 1650. I did a quick analysis of the psych sheets and it looks like there were 395 people (combined men and women) who entered at least one distance event, and 78 (19.7%) who entered both.
It seems likely to me that not EVERY person who entered both events would be happy with 2 per lane in order to do it, but for the sake of argument let's make that dubious assumption. That means that you are asking 80% of the distance swimmers who do NOT want to enter both events to double up their lanes for the sake of the 20% of the swimmers who want to do both. Is that a fair thing to ask of them?
(One can argue that even those distance swimmers who would only swim one event would be willing to swim two-per-lane for the sake of their distance brethren who want to do both.)
Of course if the distance events were on different days (like at Maryland, though that is a 5-day meet instead of the usual 4-day format) you might have a lot more than 20% of the people who would enter both events. But it isn't obvious to me that a majority would do so, some people are perfectly content with their 800/1000 split when they do the mile and might rather do other events to get more "bang for their buck."
Add me to the list of people who would be willing to swim 2 per lane in a long course national meet if it allowed me to swim both the 1500 and 800!
At Greensboro SC Nationals they allowed people to swim both 1000 and 1650. I did a quick analysis of the psych sheets and it looks like there were 395 people (combined men and women) who entered at least one distance event, and 78 (19.7%) who entered both.
It seems likely to me that not EVERY person who entered both events would be happy with 2 per lane in order to do it, but for the sake of argument let's make that dubious assumption. That means that you are asking 80% of the distance swimmers who do NOT want to enter both events to double up their lanes for the sake of the 20% of the swimmers who want to do both. Is that a fair thing to ask of them?
(One can argue that even those distance swimmers who would only swim one event would be willing to swim two-per-lane for the sake of their distance brethren who want to do both.)
Of course if the distance events were on different days (like at Maryland, though that is a 5-day meet instead of the usual 4-day format) you might have a lot more than 20% of the people who would enter both events. But it isn't obvious to me that a majority would do so, some people are perfectly content with their 800/1000 split when they do the mile and might rather do other events to get more "bang for their buck."
