As a card carring USMS swimmer for the past 4 years I am proud to say that I also carry the card for USATriathlon. :D
I have swam my entire life and I need to do something more than back and forth; up and down the lane. I find swim meets to be extremly boring and a good waste of a taper.
Triathlons, well, they Rock!
Anyone else out there want to stand up with me? Or am I to be forever banned from this site, never to return again untill my tires go flat and both my knees are surgically altered.
Barry
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Originally posted by Ken Classen
By the way as Tall Paul can attest, there have been many of us who would prefer provable qual times at nationals not the honor system. Somewhere there's a thread on that.
That topic has been debated ad-nauseum.
It's not so much that the QT's are honor system, it's that USMS does not have the man power and the times database to do the verifications.
If we had the droves of people volunteering to help with verifications like there are droves of people complaining about it being based on honor system (by default), times would be verified.
Of course, we could also raise your dues, let's say double, and implement a snazzy computerized national database and hire people to maintain it.
Or we could charge two or three hundred bucks as the entry fee for the nationals, so we could pay for the manpower to verify the times.
I would like to invite those who don't like the system to come to their local LMSC meetings and start contributing where it counts and where they can make changes.
Intelectualizing about things on this forum doesn't get much accomplished.
Originally posted by Ken Classen
By the way as Tall Paul can attest, there have been many of us who would prefer provable qual times at nationals not the honor system. Somewhere there's a thread on that.
That topic has been debated ad-nauseum.
It's not so much that the QT's are honor system, it's that USMS does not have the man power and the times database to do the verifications.
If we had the droves of people volunteering to help with verifications like there are droves of people complaining about it being based on honor system (by default), times would be verified.
Of course, we could also raise your dues, let's say double, and implement a snazzy computerized national database and hire people to maintain it.
Or we could charge two or three hundred bucks as the entry fee for the nationals, so we could pay for the manpower to verify the times.
I would like to invite those who don't like the system to come to their local LMSC meetings and start contributing where it counts and where they can make changes.
Intelectualizing about things on this forum doesn't get much accomplished.
