Wow, what a meet!! Thanks to all those who organized, volunteered and officiated at this year's Nationals.....excellent job!! I'm just a 6,000 yards-a-week lap swimmer, without QT's, (but didn't want to miss this opportunity being so close to home) - and I never felt unwelcome at all, even though I couldn't hold a candle to the rest of my age group. I met some nice people, watched some awesome (Muhammad was SMOKIN!) and inspirational (our senior delegation - what a great group of people) swims. The fanfare before the Race Team's 50 free and especially the 50 fly, was very entertaining!! Hope Muhammad makes the olympics!
This was the best meet I've ever attended and even though I didn't place, I did take home two PR's, an accomplishment long in coming!
Thanks again Indy Swim Fit!!
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Ditto on what Candance said, I am in the same situation. No Q-times, but still felt welcome and had 3 PR's.
The ONLY complaint would be the concession stand. What's with not opening until 8? The age group meets I have gone to have always had the stand open at warm-up time.
Other than that, really well run, on timeline, meet results out in a jiffy. Since I run the computers at our age group meets, I know how hard it is to get all that functioning well, and there did not seem to be glitches. Nice job!
I didn't really notice the air temp was that cool, but I always wore shorts and a long sleeve shirt when I wasn't swimming. I thought the temp of the competition pool was ideal. Actually the dive tank wasn't bad, either. I wouldn't want to swim a workout in there, but for warmup/warmdown it felt good.
I really can't complain with how I swam. I set new Masters PBs in all my events and was well under the Nationals cuts in all six. I even scored in a couple events. However, I really wanted to do well in the 500 free, and that turned out to be disappointing. Oh well. Just one more thing to shoot for next time!
This was by far the best Masters meet I have ever been to! It was very well organized and ran quickly considering how may swimmers were there! The pool is awesome!! I had 6 personal best masters times! My only complaint is the air temp!!! IT WAS COLD!
Great meet!
Very well run, especially the event timeline.
It was exciting to put so many faces with the names here in this group and to meet a number of other great people.
I didn't swim all that well, but I didn't expect to, cause I'm nursing alittle bit of an injury, so that was no big deal.
I was going for the experience, and that part was great and well worth the trip.
Sorry to be the grumbler of this thread, but I was still put off by the number of empty lanes -- especially on Sunday.
Mandatory check-in for all events is key -- it keeps the meet shorter (thus not having to deal with the issues of limiting number of events or enforcing cut-off times) and allows for full heats.
Yeah, there are always issues to work out with technology for on-line check-in (we are in the 21st century however) and getting the heat sheets copied each night is a hassle (but Kinkos isn't that inconvenient -- it worked fine putting them out at the entrance at Tempe and Rutgers). But it is well worth the hassle to shorten the days for all of us (I know several folks who swam the first and last events on Friday -- 100 fly and 400 IM -- and they had a helluva long day).
It is a shame to have to pick events based on how long the session is going to be rather than what you want to swim. I don't think we run the risk of having the meet run too fast!
Efficiency doesn't take the fun out of it, and makes it nicer for us all.
