I am thinking of participating a swim meet, just to experience it once in my life. I had a lot of reservations about signing up for a meet. But after reading some of the threads in the forums, my fears have subsided.
1. I can't do flip turns very well. It seems I can do open turns instead.
2. I fear my goggles will pop off during my dive. Looks like I can start in the water which I am more comfortable with anyways.
But there are a few things that I'm still wondering about.
1. I'm pretty slow. I've read somewhere that most meets have a "slow heat"? What does that mean really? So you could have multiple people being #1 for the same age group? And how can you tell if a meet has several heats?
2. Why is it when I view some of the past event results, some events have rankings for the top 3 swimmers and some have only 1? I am attaching a screenshot of what I am talking about. Does that mean there was only 1 person swimming in that event?
3. How does one finish off for freestyle? Do you have to press a buzzer?
Me too. I've got my eyes on one Jan 21st in Schenectady, NY. Haven't registered yet, but it's about a 90% certainty now. I have had the same questions and people assure me I won't make a complete fool of myself. As for speed, I have none. As runner for 40 years, racing anything short of a mile was a waste of time. I have no pool times other than training workouts.
My quandary is which event to enter. 50y (best 54) or 100y (best 2:10)? But I swim a casual 1k-2k yds 3-4 days a week and am most comfortable at 500 yds. I worry that my 12 minutes or so will hold up the whole show and tick people off.
Me too. I've got my eyes on one Jan 21st in Schenectady, NY. Haven't registered yet, but it's about a 90% certainty now. I have had the same questions and people assure me I won't make a complete fool of myself. As for speed, I have none. As runner for 40 years, racing anything short of a mile was a waste of time. I have no pool times other than training workouts.
My quandary is which event to enter. 50y (best 54) or 100y (best 2:10)? But I swim a casual 1k-2k yds 3-4 days a week and am most comfortable at 500 yds. I worry that my 12 minutes or so will hold up the whole show and tick people off.
