Anyone ever manage to swim all 18 events in meets during one short course season? I thought it would be kind of "fun" to do. Once. It seems that the only major difficulties are 1) finishing the 200 fly legally and 2) having enough meets to try to get them all in.
With our first meet of the season yesterday I have the 50, 100, and 500 free out of the way. Next Saturday I'll get all 5 200s done (that's going to be a fun day). After that only 10 more. I'm trying to figure out where I'll be able to get the 1650 in too, not too many meets offer that.
I'm curious to hear any stories from others who have tried it or were coerced to do it. I would imagine there are fun tales from sprinters who had to swim the 400 IM or backstrokers struggling through a 200 ***.
Anyone ever manage to swim all 18 events in meets during one short course season? I thought it would be kind of "fun" to do. Once. It seems that the only major difficulties are 1) finishing the 200 fly legally and 2) having enough meets to try to get them all in.
This is one of my "soft" goals for the season. This weekend, I knocked off the 1650, 50 & 100 ***, 50 back and 50 fly. I have three more meets this SCY season and a plan to do this. Unless event order really conspires against me, this will be doable. I don't think I'll get to swim any event twice, but that's fine. Part of the fun for me is that I've never competed in most of these events as a Masters' swimmer, so I'm going to get loads of personal bests this season.
I highly encourage people to try this. Being naturally distance oriented, I had a blast doing 50s of the strokes this weekend.
Anyone ever manage to swim all 18 events in meets during one short course season? I thought it would be kind of "fun" to do. Once. It seems that the only major difficulties are 1) finishing the 200 fly legally and 2) having enough meets to try to get them all in.
This is one of my "soft" goals for the season. This weekend, I knocked off the 1650, 50 & 100 ***, 50 back and 50 fly. I have three more meets this SCY season and a plan to do this. Unless event order really conspires against me, this will be doable. I don't think I'll get to swim any event twice, but that's fine. Part of the fun for me is that I've never competed in most of these events as a Masters' swimmer, so I'm going to get loads of personal bests this season.
I highly encourage people to try this. Being naturally distance oriented, I had a blast doing 50s of the strokes this weekend.
