2009 USMS Long Course National Championships

Greg- Thanks for the nice words. Your 100 fly record still stands. It is really fast! I went 1:01.8 at Indy. Partly hoping Gary Hall would show up for it, partly not! He would have probably gone out faster than I ever could and it would have been interesting the last length. I got first hand experience with FINA and USMS rules a week before masters nationals. I went .6 secs faster in the 200 fly (2.18.3) at a USA Swimming meet than I did at masters nationals. The meet officials showed me the official FINA and USMS record applications form. I found out that: - FINA never recognizes masters records set in a USA Swimming meet. Except if it is co-sanctioned with USMS I suppose. - USMS recognizes records set in a USA Swimming meet under certain conditions including IF the pool is recertified for length before the end of day (applies to bulkhead pools only). USA Swimming does not require this for a record to count if the pool is already certified (such has having a lockable bulkhead at distance). The pool I swam in is in fact USA Swimming certified but no go since the certifying engineer couldn't be reached that day. Very happy with masters nationals. I had no idea what to expect from a taper since I hadn't trained hard, tapered or done a good meet since world championships in Munich in 2000. Wish I hadn't been such a wimp in the 200 free (negative split).

Greg- Thanks for the nice words. Your 100 fly record still stands. It is really fast! I went 1:01.8 at Indy. Partly hoping Gary Hall would show up for it, partly not! He would have probably gone out faster than I ever could and it would have been interesting the last length. I got first hand experience with FINA and USMS rules a week before masters nationals. I went .6 secs faster in the 200 fly (2.18.3) at a USA Swimming meet than I did at masters nationals. The meet officials showed me the official FINA and USMS record applications form. I found out that: - FINA never recognizes masters records set in a USA Swimming meet. Except if it is co-sanctioned with USMS I suppose. - USMS recognizes records set in a USA Swimming meet under certain conditions including IF the pool is recertified for length before the end of day (applies to bulkhead pools only). USA Swimming does not require this for a record to count if the pool is already certified (such has having a lockable bulkhead at distance). The pool I swam in is in fact USA Swimming certified but no go since the certifying engineer couldn't be reached that day. Very happy with masters nationals. I had no idea what to expect from a taper since I hadn't trained hard, tapered or done a good meet since world championships in Munich in 2000. Wish I hadn't been such a wimp in the 200 free (negative split).