There is a Master's meet in Atlanta this Sunday which starts at 10 AM. I haven't been to one before so I was wondering how long they last and is there a certain order to the events.
I'm against this.
I'm against it as well. I don't see a need of requiring absolute best times, etc. My position is that seed times should be "real", and they should be as accurate as possible. Because, in the end....
Let's encourage people to swim and try to improve, not berate them for trying to swim more.
I want people to swim more, too. If more people have better seed times, then I can get more swimmers into the meet, and you can swim more events. With lots of bad seed times, I have to cut people from the meet, because there's just not enough time.
When warmup is at 8:00am, and the meet starts at 9:00am... by the time 7:00pm comes around and we're getting to the last relay of the day... that's a really long day, and lots of people get cranky. If I said that we could have the same meet, and all of the same swimmers, but finish an hour earlier, would you be interested?
-Rick
I'm against this.
I'm against it as well. I don't see a need of requiring absolute best times, etc. My position is that seed times should be "real", and they should be as accurate as possible. Because, in the end....
Let's encourage people to swim and try to improve, not berate them for trying to swim more.
I want people to swim more, too. If more people have better seed times, then I can get more swimmers into the meet, and you can swim more events. With lots of bad seed times, I have to cut people from the meet, because there's just not enough time.
When warmup is at 8:00am, and the meet starts at 9:00am... by the time 7:00pm comes around and we're getting to the last relay of the day... that's a really long day, and lots of people get cranky. If I said that we could have the same meet, and all of the same swimmers, but finish an hour earlier, would you be interested?
-Rick
