I have just recently decided to become dually affiliated with both the USS and USMS (i.e. I am now registered with both organizations). I did this primarily so that I could swim for our local agegroup team at meets in the 17 and over age group. The main advantage for me will be that I can now attend a much larger number of swimming events per season while not having to travel nearly as far to attend swim meets. Since most of the USS meets I will be attending are going to be in Memphis, I can now travel home after each day and return the next day without having to spend the night in a hotel....Also I will be burning a lot less gas getting to the nearby USS meets than I would traveling to USMS meets (even the ones that are the closest to where I live). If you have the same kind of situation in regards to traveling long distances to attend USMS meets and spending too much on traveling expenses, then perhaps you can benefit also from attending USS meets as well?? Also I don't think you necessarily have to be dually affiliated to attend these USS meets?.....(but I'm not really sure how that works to be honest).....I noticed that several other USMS swimmers have attended USS meets before. My first USS meet will be on October 15 and 16. I know I will probably get smoked by a lot of young fast swimmers....but I am still looking forward to the experience none-the-less. If anyone else has ever swam at a USS meet before while also registered as a masters swimmer with the USMS, please share your experience with me/us....How many of y'all are also dually affiliated?
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. I intended on posting a poll for this thread as well to see how many other USMS swimmers have ever attended a USS sanctioned meet....but I'm not sure if I submitted it correctly...so the poll may not actually accompany this posting??
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What happens in the event that a meet is dually sponsered by both USA and USMS as some here have pointed out happens more frequently now? It seems logical to assume that if you swam in such a meet that your times would count towards both USMS and USA?.....Can anyone verify this?
Newmastersswimmer
Kirk. Dont feel to bad . I am 71 yrs old , And slow. But one thing in my favor, will be, When every has finished I will still be swimming. And everyone will be watching me. HA, HA
Yeah, it's going to be a little strange. A teammate is also swimming, but he's 24, so won't really look out of place. On the other hand, I'm closer in age to most of the parents that will be there. In fact a coworker has kids that swim and he'll be at the meet.
Good Luck!......I got some pretty strange looks from parents and timers at my first USA meet. I asked the clerk of course where I needed to go to sign in and he responded with "How old is your kid that's swimming?"....I responded with "I am the kid". He then looked at me strangley and pointed to the checkin table.
Newmastersswimmer
Newmasterswimmer:
Aren't you the crazy old dude who has been swimming something like 10,000 meters a day in a quixotic quest to defeat some Texan somewhere in something? For beer?
With the new workout regime, a 10% improvement ought to be a piece of cake; hell, your coach probably made the "mistake" deliberately to motivate you.
Jim, the meet organizers should be able to move you to the correct heat. It's really not that difficult, unless there are a lot of entries to move around. And if they've already printed the heat sheets it makes it more difficult (though they could reprint a "reseed" page). It's their fault, not yours.
Well guys I'm in for some serious embarressment at my upcoming agegroup swim meet this weekend. Somehow when our coach entered our times for our events the computer recorded them as short course meter times instead of short course yard times....then the computer automatically converted them into yard times...(when they were already yard times!).....So now we are going to this big meet with lots of teams and lots of fast swimmers from 3 different states and we all have times entered that are around 6 to 7 seconds faster per hundred than our actual times.....So I'm seeded somewhere near first or second in all my best events when I shouldn't even be in either of the fastest two heats of any of my events....imagine how much fun I'm going to have getting smoked by everyone in my heat by 2 to 3 body lengths (in a 100) while swimming in lane 3, 4, or 5.....I'm seeded 12 seconds too fast in all my 200's.....oh what joy this is going to be....LOL!!
Newmastersswimmer
originally posted by Knelson
Don't sweat it! All you need to do is swim 10% faster than normal and you'll equal your seed times. That shouldn't be too hard, should it?
Well when you put it like that, I guess I've got nothing to really worry about then....I mean what's an extra measley 10% anyhow right?......LOL!!.....Typical Engineer's viewpoint!......(sorry that just kinda blurted out on accident).
Newmastersswimmer
