having just recently competed in the 2nd annual lake quassapaug open water festival, i can honestly say that stage racing has become my favorite way to kill a day (or a week).
i will be heading out to austin in october to participate in the highland lakes monster challenge....5 lakes in 5 days.
not to limit the pleasure of such a format to open water, i think there are tremendous possibilities for adding such challenges to the standard pool racing format.
here are a few suggestions:
50 of each stroke and the 100 im
100 of each stroke and the 200 im
200 of each stroke and the 400 im
1000, 1650 and 400 im
etc.
to clarify, each participant would be scored by their combined time.
In fact that meet is coming up in 12 days. I entered, but I'm not aligned with any of the pentathlon divisions. I'm trying SCM 200 back for the first time ever. Then 50 bk, 50 br (trying to break 40 seconds), 100 free, 100 im. Anybody wanna gridge?
:hijack:
The pentathlon meet was today. No one accepted my gridge here... the psych sheet for the meet didn't include any forum regulars (all events were deck-seeded so there was a psych sheet rather than a heat sheet)... then near the end of warmup I noticed David Margrave walking in. The meet allowed day-of-race registration, setting up The Triple Secret Spanish Inquisition Gridge! (and no, I wasn't expecting it!) Before our first race, David put on his shark-fin cap and his goggles that shoot laser beams, got on the block, and started doing kung fu! Despite these dastardly intimidation tactics, I managed to beat him two of the three times that we raced. He touched me out in the 50 ***, I gotta give him that.
Portions of this story may not have happened. It's hard to say, really. Good swimming, David!
In fact that meet is coming up in 12 days. I entered, but I'm not aligned with any of the pentathlon divisions. I'm trying SCM 200 back for the first time ever. Then 50 bk, 50 br (trying to break 40 seconds), 100 free, 100 im. Anybody wanna gridge?
:hijack:
The pentathlon meet was today. No one accepted my gridge here... the psych sheet for the meet didn't include any forum regulars (all events were deck-seeded so there was a psych sheet rather than a heat sheet)... then near the end of warmup I noticed David Margrave walking in. The meet allowed day-of-race registration, setting up The Triple Secret Spanish Inquisition Gridge! (and no, I wasn't expecting it!) Before our first race, David put on his shark-fin cap and his goggles that shoot laser beams, got on the block, and started doing kung fu! Despite these dastardly intimidation tactics, I managed to beat him two of the three times that we raced. He touched me out in the 50 ***, I gotta give him that.
Portions of this story may not have happened. It's hard to say, really. Good swimming, David!
