Later today I'm off to the Colorado State Masters Swim Championships and will be swimming the 1650. Positive check is at 12:30 pm, meets starts at 1 pm, the pool will be set up for 10 lanes of competition, however in the standard masters slow to fast seeding, I'll be lucky to be racing by 3:30 pm. Colorado doesn't allow No Time entries, although we have no rules for fibbing your seed time. Anyway the poll question is for championship format masters swim meets should seeding be slow to fast or fast to slow for 1000/1650 races?
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Important operative term here: single session. Last year the Illinois State Meet (which usually has 100+ distance free swimmers) used a three day format with the distance event run in three sessions, all slow to fast, starting Friday mid-day. This accomodates both those who want to get it over with early and those with family/work obligations who prefer to swim later. In other years event hosts have offered slow to fast seeding on both Thursday and Friday evenings; for those who live close enough the Thursday option is wildly popular with those wanting more recovery time, the Friday option being an excellent alternative for those coming in from out of town.
Important operative term here: single session. Last year the Illinois State Meet (which usually has 100+ distance free swimmers) used a three day format with the distance event run in three sessions, all slow to fast, starting Friday mid-day. This accomodates both those who want to get it over with early and those with family/work obligations who prefer to swim later. In other years event hosts have offered slow to fast seeding on both Thursday and Friday evenings; for those who live close enough the Thursday option is wildly popular with those wanting more recovery time, the Friday option being an excellent alternative for those coming in from out of town.
