Are Open Water events more popular than Pool events?
Former Member
It’s undeniable that the popularity of open water swimming has risen dramatically in the last few years. But when looking for a LCM meet to swim in, I saw an interesting trend on the USMS Calendar.
www.usms.org/.../calendar.php
Here in the Colonies Zone, there are three pool meets listed (two were last weekend and the other is in October) and TEN open water events. In the Great Lakes Zone, there are ZERO pool meets (not counting LCM Nationals in Indy) and seven open water events. These kinds of numbers are similar in virtually all the Zones.
Has open water swimming officially passed pool swimming in popularity?
I noticed the same thing here in the PNS zone. I live in Washington and the only two LCM meets this summer were in Oregon. Unfortunately I couldn’t make either of these meets. There are several open water events, but I’m not much of an open water swimmer, at least not yet. I had to swim a US Swimming meet to get some times for this summer. I may register for PNS through US Swimming instead of Masters just because of the availability of meets.
I noticed the same thing here in the PNS zone. I live in Washington and the only two LCM meets this summer were in Oregon. Unfortunately I couldn’t make either of these meets. There are several open water events, but I’m not much of an open water swimmer, at least not yet. I had to swim a US Swimming meet to get some times for this summer. I may register for PNS through US Swimming instead of Masters just because of the availability of meets.
