The 100 IM is the most fun event on the Masters swimming short course schedule. Takes you back to being 9 years old again.
We should add it to the long course schedule. Who really needs a wall to change strokes? The rule could be that the swimmer must change from fly to back and from *** to free in a transition zone in the middle of the pool. The zone could be markers on the lane lines or the transition must begin when the head reaches a marker at 25m and must end before the feet pass the same marker.
Good idea or impractical?
I'm probably overthinking this, but how would you legally transition from fly to back? Thinking about doing 100 IMs in a long course pool, most people probably take a one-armed fly stroke to flip themseleves onto their backs. That would then be an illegal fly and you should be DQed. So, unless you said anything goes in the transition zone I'm not sure how you could do this, and if you did say "anything goes" that would cause problems, too.
I'm probably overthinking this, but how would you legally transition from fly to back? Thinking about doing 100 IMs in a long course pool, most people probably take a one-armed fly stroke to flip themseleves onto their backs. That would then be an illegal fly and you should be DQed. So, unless you said anything goes in the transition zone I'm not sure how you could do this, and if you did say "anything goes" that would cause problems, too.
