How about this year we don't dedicate so many lanes to slower swimmers in warm up. Last year there were about 4 end lanes out of the total 16 lanes dedicated to the slowest older swimmers. That's 25% of the entire warmup space !
We need a better way to keep the slow people in the slow lanes and the faster people in the faster lanes during warm up. Warm up turns worthless after the first 10 minutes.
John Smith
When nationals was here in AZ 2 years ago I was shocked at the number of people who 'had' to swim in the competition pool during warm up, and in the diving well/warm-up pool in the same facility. At times it seemed like there were 10+ per lane. There is another pool across campus, I went there, it was practically wide open, got a lane to myself, a nice long slow warmup, went back to the compeition pool, and did some there just before the meet.
While it is very helpful to warm up and use the competition pool and facilities, I really don't understand why more people don't take full advantage of all of the facilities available at nationals.
When nationals was here in AZ 2 years ago I was shocked at the number of people who 'had' to swim in the competition pool during warm up, and in the diving well/warm-up pool in the same facility. At times it seemed like there were 10+ per lane. There is another pool across campus, I went there, it was practically wide open, got a lane to myself, a nice long slow warmup, went back to the compeition pool, and did some there just before the meet.
While it is very helpful to warm up and use the competition pool and facilities, I really don't understand why more people don't take full advantage of all of the facilities available at nationals.
