if the USMS held the Inaugural 25K Championship where
"For the past three years, several USMS swimmers have asked for a 25K open water event. This year, they finally got their wish and 45 solo swimmers signed up for this inaugural event. Twenty-six five-person relay teams (five swimmers, each swimming 5K), totaling 130 swimmers, rounded out the mix."
what's it gonna take to get 25's added to the list of events USMS recognizes?
Imagine how fun they would be?
why not bring back where we all started
like summer league 25's
Does anyone else out there wish for usms to offer and recognize 25?
Maybe if enough of us wish for 25's to be added
it will one day come true
Sign the cyber petition
Dear USMS,
YES I want USMS to offer 25's
sanction them at SC Nats and SCM meets
keep records and a yearly top 10s
Ande Rasmussen
Anyone else?
As a meet director person... in many pools, 25's are a nightmare. It means you either need to get touchpads working at the turn end, or get starting blocks and speakers and starting system working at the turn end. In big masters meets with lots of other things to go wrong, I'm not looking for more things that could go wrong. :-)
-Rick
I've only been to 4 Master's meets but in all 4 of them we've had touch pads on both ends of the pool. doing 25's would only require moving the starter and two side judges. if you wanted to end the race on the normal start side, otherwise, just have the turning judges be timers, and then you just have a runner, run the back up watches around to the other side before the 25's start.
but in the LCM meet I attended in June, I was glad we started the 50's on the same side as the rest of the events, the blocks were so outdated on the turning side.
As a meet director person... in many pools, 25's are a nightmare. It means you either need to get touchpads working at the turn end, or get starting blocks and speakers and starting system working at the turn end. In big masters meets with lots of other things to go wrong, I'm not looking for more things that could go wrong. :-)
-Rick
I've only been to 4 Master's meets but in all 4 of them we've had touch pads on both ends of the pool. doing 25's would only require moving the starter and two side judges. if you wanted to end the race on the normal start side, otherwise, just have the turning judges be timers, and then you just have a runner, run the back up watches around to the other side before the 25's start.
but in the LCM meet I attended in June, I was glad we started the 50's on the same side as the rest of the events, the blocks were so outdated on the turning side.
