I am planning a meet and I would like to include a couple of "fun" relays. I need some ideas. Minnesota Masters Swimming does a "Reindeer Relays" meet each December and I found descriptions of a few of their races (see below). Does anyone else have some suggestions for fun relays? (Note that this meet will be held in a public high school, so the relays cannot include alcohol...)
--Tarzan relay - each swimmer must swim with his head out of the water
--Ballet leg relay - each swimmer must do backstroke with 1 leg out of the water, pointed in the air
--Reindeer relay - each swimmer dog paddles while wearing antlers (which are passed like a baton from one swimmer to the next)
--All-Fly relay
--Kicking relay
Here are some that are adapted from track & field:
Sprint Medley Relay: 100, 50, 50, 200 (or some variant)
Distance Medley Relay: 400, 200, 200, 800 (or some variant)
2 Person relay: 2 people alternate legs until a specific distance is reached. In track this was done (back when tracks weren't metric) as 20 X {440 yards (person 1), 440 yards (person2)} for a total of 10 miles. It's brutal.
"Endless" relay: for 2 to x people - each person goes a distance (say 50 yards) in a rotation until a specific time is reached. Team with greatest distance wins.
"Handicap" relay: Pick a "standard" relay (say 4X100). When teams enter, you add the members' best 100 times together. Slowest total team time goes first, next slowest goes after the difference in that teams time to the first teams time in seconds and so on until the fastest team goes last. First team home wins.
"Devil take the hindmost" - similar to the "endless" relay, except that at the end of each round of legs, the last team is eliminated. This is done until only three teams are left and then they either do one leg or round (your choice) for places. You can also combine this for the first round with handicapping, so that there is a chance that one of the faster teams will actually be eliminated.
-LBJ
Here are some that are adapted from track & field:
Sprint Medley Relay: 100, 50, 50, 200 (or some variant)
Distance Medley Relay: 400, 200, 200, 800 (or some variant)
2 Person relay: 2 people alternate legs until a specific distance is reached. In track this was done (back when tracks weren't metric) as 20 X {440 yards (person 1), 440 yards (person2)} for a total of 10 miles. It's brutal.
"Endless" relay: for 2 to x people - each person goes a distance (say 50 yards) in a rotation until a specific time is reached. Team with greatest distance wins.
"Handicap" relay: Pick a "standard" relay (say 4X100). When teams enter, you add the members' best 100 times together. Slowest total team time goes first, next slowest goes after the difference in that teams time to the first teams time in seconds and so on until the fastest team goes last. First team home wins.
"Devil take the hindmost" - similar to the "endless" relay, except that at the end of each round of legs, the last team is eliminated. This is done until only three teams are left and then they either do one leg or round (your choice) for places. You can also combine this for the first round with handicapping, so that there is a chance that one of the faster teams will actually be eliminated.
-LBJ
