This is somewhat related to another post I just started (Top Ten conerns). I noticed in the top ten list a number of swimmers (generally very fast swimmers) who swam their first nationals (or any other masters meet) in 5 years due to being in a new age group. I state this by looking at the past few years top ten lists and not seeing their names. Is this a good thing for masters swimming? Swimmers whose only affiliation with masters swimming is showing up to one meet every 5 years to break a record. These records should be owned by people that are true masters swimmers.
What is a true masters swimmers?- Perhaps doing a few meets a year might work. When I swam on an age group team as a child, I know in order to qualify for our championship meet, we had to swim at least 3 regular meets. Perhaps a rule like that for Nationals could begin to fix this problem-
If not, many of our national records will be held by "ringers"
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Originally posted by NCSwimmer
So a record can only be broken by a swimmer who swims a fast time(not necessarily the fastest time) who participates regularly and personifies the spirit of masters swimming.
Now we're getting somewhere. Anyone want to take a shot at defining participates, regularly, and spirit?
You didn't and you don't get a dispute from me regarding winning based on fastest times, because that's the definition of a speed sport.
The spirit of participation I am mentioning -when answering the question you asked above-, promotes the activity, from occasional participant, to regular participant.
Originally posted by NCSwimmer
So a record can only be broken by a swimmer who swims a fast time(not necessarily the fastest time) who participates regularly and personifies the spirit of masters swimming.
Now we're getting somewhere. Anyone want to take a shot at defining participates, regularly, and spirit?
You didn't and you don't get a dispute from me regarding winning based on fastest times, because that's the definition of a speed sport.
The spirit of participation I am mentioning -when answering the question you asked above-, promotes the activity, from occasional participant, to regular participant.
