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?
Interesting thread. My team has a very small percentage who will swim in meets, but we usually have a large turnout for open water swims. We do have quite a few triathletes, but there's even many non-meet swimmers who will do open water swims. We usually have a very large turnout for the La Jolla Roughwater Swim, yet have maybe a handful who go to Nationals.
Interesting thread. My team has a very small percentage who will swim in meets, but we usually have a large turnout for open water swims. We do have quite a few triathletes, but there's even many non-meet swimmers who will do open water swims. We usually have a very large turnout for the La Jolla Roughwater Swim, yet have maybe a handful who go to Nationals.
