It was my first pentathlon. You know, maybe it's me, but it's astonishing how tired you get by the time you have to do the IM. Saw a lot of fast swimmers and even though I made a personal best in the 50 free, 26.65, I got spanked by the super heroes in my 45-49 age group.
Anyway, I was DQed on the IM for doing the flip backstroke turn. My bad, though I had no idea it wasn't allowed. It's legal for backstroke why not the IM, does anybody know the reasoning?
tony
A pentathlon is one event of each stroke plus an IM. Looks like the CalTech one was all 50's/100 IM. The one I entered (www.swimoregon.org/.../06pententry.pdf) is a choice of 50's/100 IM or 100's/200 IM, scored by cumulative time. It looks like Cal's was scored by place points?
I think it will be fun. This will be my second meet after joining my masters group, and it will force me to swim some events I would not normally consider. Always good to step outside your comfort zone and try new things. I think. Maybe.
A pentathlon is one event of each stroke plus an IM. Looks like the CalTech one was all 50's/100 IM. The one I entered (www.swimoregon.org/.../06pententry.pdf) is a choice of 50's/100 IM or 100's/200 IM, scored by cumulative time. It looks like Cal's was scored by place points?
I think it will be fun. This will be my second meet after joining my masters group, and it will force me to swim some events I would not normally consider. Always good to step outside your comfort zone and try new things. I think. Maybe.
