I'm thinking about going to this meet since he GA LMSC had to cancel its last SCY meet of the season. Anyone else going?
Does anyone have any info on this meet in April? What are the facilities like? Fast pool? Separate warm-up/down pool?
Is this meet well attended? Can I find any past results or this year's event order?
Edit: I found last year's results here.
Don't know the pool in Raleigh, but am from RTP (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, aka Research Triangle). It's a nice area. Raleigh has a cool revitalized downtown; Durham is struggling with its downtown but is working on rehabbing the tobacco barns into a performing arts center (finished), and you can catch a Durham Bulls game and then see the old movie, Bull Durham, and Chapel Hill is a cool college town.
How about coming up to New England and doing the SCY championships at Harvard in March? Usually there are 700 or more swimmers. A lot of fast people.
A bit colder here in April than in NC. Likely all flowers will have bloomed in NC, etcetera, whereas here it could still snow, but since you are from GA, as I recall, you know all this already.
Not much public transportation in any of these towns (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) so renting a car likely would be necessary.
WHEREAS, if you come to Boston, lots of public transportation. Only problem is, it's far, and much more expensive.
If I had a large mansion ... but I have a teensy tiny apartment. But someone likely would put swimmers up if you asked on the NEM site (www.swimnem.org).
Good luck! And don't count out the Charles River One-Mile swim sometime in June. Just to tell people you swam in the Charles River in Boston will cause them to faint (it used to be so polluted it would catch on fire); now it is clean most of the time; there are things you don't want to know about on the bottom of the pool, and sometimes unfortunate "deceased" people have been found floating in the area where the swim takes place, but it is an incredible sense of accomplishment to swim in water that has actually been cleaned up! Google Charles River One-Mile swim to get more info.
Don't know the pool in Raleigh, but am from RTP (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, aka Research Triangle). It's a nice area. Raleigh has a cool revitalized downtown; Durham is struggling with its downtown but is working on rehabbing the tobacco barns into a performing arts center (finished), and you can catch a Durham Bulls game and then see the old movie, Bull Durham, and Chapel Hill is a cool college town.
How about coming up to New England and doing the SCY championships at Harvard in March? Usually there are 700 or more swimmers. A lot of fast people.
A bit colder here in April than in NC. Likely all flowers will have bloomed in NC, etcetera, whereas here it could still snow, but since you are from GA, as I recall, you know all this already.
Not much public transportation in any of these towns (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) so renting a car likely would be necessary.
WHEREAS, if you come to Boston, lots of public transportation. Only problem is, it's far, and much more expensive.
If I had a large mansion ... but I have a teensy tiny apartment. But someone likely would put swimmers up if you asked on the NEM site (www.swimnem.org).
Good luck! And don't count out the Charles River One-Mile swim sometime in June. Just to tell people you swam in the Charles River in Boston will cause them to faint (it used to be so polluted it would catch on fire); now it is clean most of the time; there are things you don't want to know about on the bottom of the pool, and sometimes unfortunate "deceased" people have been found floating in the area where the swim takes place, but it is an incredible sense of accomplishment to swim in water that has actually been cleaned up! Google Charles River One-Mile swim to get more info.
