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
ok, I'm confused with Ande's post and then the replies.
Ande startes off talking about 25km open water events, and then all the replies are for 25m sprints...
I too wish that 25's would make a come back.
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meet I attended in June, I was glad we started the 50's on the same side as the rest of the events, the blocks were so outdated on the turning side.
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.
Were the pads plugged in at the turn side? I.e., were you getting 25 yard/meter splits on all races?
Also, with respect to converting the turning judges into timers... yikes! How many turning judges do you have? We usually have two timers per lane, but we're lucky to get two stroke/turn judges on each end for most meets.
-Rick
read what I wrote
my point is if USMS could figure out how to launch a 25k national championships
why can't they be innovative and fun enough to offer
25's at meets?
ok, I'm confused with Ande's post and then the replies.
Ande startes off talking about 25km open water events, and then all the replies are for 25m sprints...
I too wish that 25's would make a come back.
USMS does allow 25’s. We just don’t keep records or top 10 for these. In this way it is similar to the 25K (no records or top 10).
25’s and 4X25 relays can be offered at any sanctioned or recognized event (except nationals). I’m thinking of adding them to a meet I’m running this fall.
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.
Setting up touchpads at one or both ends of a pool is not that big of a deal. I’m guessing you haven’t priced out a set of touch pads lately. And while taking 9 pads to the pool for a meet isn’t too much trouble, loading the van with 18 pads gets to be big deal.
