I read on an earlier thread that Rowdy Gaines was in Japan and wanted to swim in a meet there.He registered with the Japanese Masters Assn. and may still hold some Japanese records.
Atta Boy/Girl to all Forumites making TT in LCM:notworthy::notworthy::notworthy:
Fort, very, very nice job coming in 3rd and right after K Pipes in the 50 back. :cheerleader:
Thanks Kristina. Congrats on your speedy fly/free times! Hope you're back in the pool!
Is it technically the national record or the USMS record?
That would be extremely odd if a non-US citizen could hold a national record by virtue of usms membership ...
I can see the usms record, encourages more people to compete, consistent with the mission statement, but not the other. Or maybe there is just no distinction between usms records and usms national records?
Yes, it's the USMS national record. I thought that was the context of the thread.
I guess my point is a USMS record implies the holder is a member of USMS. A National record would imply the record holder is at least a resident of the U.S. If you look in Appendix A of the rules book the records clearly say "USMS record."
Back to the Top Ten, though. So far I have three swims in the top ten for long course. That's pretty exciting for me since I've never had more than one top ten swim per course per season before!
I guess my point is a USMS record implies the holder is a member of USMS. A National record would imply the record holder is at least a resident of the U.S. If you look in Appendix A of the rules book the records clearly say "USMS record."
Back to the Top Ten, though. So far I have three swims in the top ten for long course. That's pretty exciting for me since I've never had more than one top ten swim per course per season before!
I am just glad you made it in that 400 free you had to re-swim!
I guess my point is a USMS record implies the holder is a member of USMS. A National record would imply the record holder is at least a resident of the U.S. If you look in Appendix A of the rules book the records clearly say "USMS record."
To drag this out even more Kirk: Is there a separate category called Master's National Records? I didn't think so & routinely interchange USMS Record and Master's National Record (or just national record when the context is clearly about master's swimming) in my conversations and writings. If there is a real, separate, category called US Master's National records, that are reserved just for US citizens, then I should be more careful in my description.
In the non-master's context, a National Record would clearly mean something else...
