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. :-)
Setting up touchpads at one or both ends of a pool is not that big of a deal. A lot of meets still use manual timing, especially smaller regions.
As for blocks, a lot of big meets take place in big pools. Most of these are 50M nowadays, which means there are holes for blocks on the bulkheads. Heck, why not just have everyone start on the side of the pool if you can't get pads/blocks to work?
GMU has blocks on a bulkhead that head towards the starting end.
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. :-)
Setting up touchpads at one or both ends of a pool is not that big of a deal. A lot of meets still use manual timing, especially smaller regions.
As for blocks, a lot of big meets take place in big pools. Most of these are 50M nowadays, which means there are holes for blocks on the bulkheads. Heck, why not just have everyone start on the side of the pool if you can't get pads/blocks to work?
GMU has blocks on a bulkhead that head towards the starting end.
