I was just wondering if anyone out there knows of masters swimmers who don’t compete and that have achieved Top Ten Times, American Records, World Records, etc. in practice. I know that stories have circulated around about swimmers like Mark Spitz who have done this (although I think he did compete :)). I was just wondering if there are similar stories in the masters ranks. It seems to me that it would be highly probable in masters swimming because so many of its members do not actually swim at meets. Therefore, I would think there are people out there who achieve these (unofficial) times during a practice session and are relatively unknown. If you’ve got a story to share, please do.
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Using that meet (or any NE championship meet) as a standard is not realistic. Turnout for those meets is EXTREMELY high. Much higher than the 'average' for similar meets and congrats for that :cheerleader:. I swim quite a few local meets in the Wash DC area and most take about 3-4 hours to complete the events.
But yes, that time can be spent doing other things. For me, I love to complete and I also love to watch others swim. Plus I get to socialize with others and meet new folks. But then again, it's too cold to golf so who knows what I'll do when the weather starts getting warmer.
Paul
The only masters meet i've been too was in Maryland, and it went incredibly fast--so fast that I ended up scratching two of my events because I hadn't anticipated it going by so quickly, and I was still tanked from my previous races. I think we were out of the pool area by like noon both days and the meet started at 9 i think. It's really nice that the meets are so fast because then if you had to travel to the meet (I traveled 4.5 hours for that meet) we were able to do things in the city the rest of the day (i.e. shopping and dining). Compared to college duel meets--that one masters meet was at least an hour in length shorter than any of the duel meets I've been to.
Using that meet (or any NE championship meet) as a standard is not realistic. Turnout for those meets is EXTREMELY high. Much higher than the 'average' for similar meets and congrats for that :cheerleader:. I swim quite a few local meets in the Wash DC area and most take about 3-4 hours to complete the events.
But yes, that time can be spent doing other things. For me, I love to complete and I also love to watch others swim. Plus I get to socialize with others and meet new folks. But then again, it's too cold to golf so who knows what I'll do when the weather starts getting warmer.
Paul
The only masters meet i've been too was in Maryland, and it went incredibly fast--so fast that I ended up scratching two of my events because I hadn't anticipated it going by so quickly, and I was still tanked from my previous races. I think we were out of the pool area by like noon both days and the meet started at 9 i think. It's really nice that the meets are so fast because then if you had to travel to the meet (I traveled 4.5 hours for that meet) we were able to do things in the city the rest of the day (i.e. shopping and dining). Compared to college duel meets--that one masters meet was at least an hour in length shorter than any of the duel meets I've been to.
