Master has postal 3000's and 5,000's
We should have a POSTAL USMS Masters 25 Race Championships
with rankings in
1) 25 fly
2) 25 back
3) 25 ***
4) 25 free
5) 25 SDK
6) fastest add up times
Who's game?
would you do this?
It would be more fun to have this at the Swim Center the day after Nationals
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I would certainly do this--though im not going to be at nationals this year most likely.
um...postal for a 25 yard swim would be highly inaccurate with a watch. It only works for 10k, 5k, 6000, 3000, and 1 hour as a few tenths +/- don't usually matter. I can see some idiot swimming in a 13.245 meter pool at a Holiday Inn in Ogallala, Nebraska, thinking he went 10.1 seconds in 25 yards.
Just my thoughts. Plus sprinting sucks and is bad for your health.
No.
And I'm a sprinter.
Too short.
The men have a huge advantage over the women off the starts.
I need a few more laps to wear them down.
I'm sure others will go for it though. . . .
Where's Fort & Warren?
They won the fastest woman and fastest man awards at the 2007 Sprint Classic at GMU... They have unofficial 25s at the end of the meet. Fastest aggregate wins the fastest man/woman award.
So far, I think they're the first frontrunners for the 2007-8 awards!
-jeff
Plus sprinting sucks and is bad for your health.
We should listen to Kurt here. He is a doctor, after all. And besides, if you do all that sprinting you could end up looking like Paul Smith....
Sounds like fun - postal sounds good or why not do them after the 1650's at Nationals. That way people don't have to stay an extra day and we can get use to the pool at the same time.
We do them at our fun Christmas meet. It's a meet that our HS coach set's up for all of
the "old timers" who used to swim in High School. The current HS teams swims in it for fun.
We just start at the other end - no blocks - and race a 25 so the electronic timing system can get our time. I already asked if we could do this for Fly - I don' t want to do a 50 or 100 but I'll do a 25.
Sammy...my 50's sucked and to set the record striaght I didn't get the 50 free record.
My bad, but to say your 50's sucked is a stretch. WR is a WR. Can't imagine what you would do in a 50 if it didn't "suck". Congrats on a great meet!
P.S. Seeing Doctor (per your orders) on Wednesday.
Plus sprinting sucks and is bad for your health.
:rofl:
Probably right! Those little sissy workouts we do don't burn any calories. Sprinting puts a lot of strain on everything too.
As Peg notes, the unofficial 25s we do annually at the Sprint Classic meet are very fun! And electronically timed. I can think of quite a few people who could absolutely smoke me on the evilstroke leg though.
There was a proposal to include 25 Yard and 25 Meter events for USMS Records and USMS Top Ten but it was restricted to the age groups 75 and above. This was presented at the 2006 Convention. It was easily defeated. I have provided a link to a past discussion on this subject.
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