It will grow both our sports, lower insurance premiums and make triathlons safer.
This is a tough one for me to evaluate. I'm not sure I want USMS meets, especially those between Jan and March to basically become overrun with USAT members try to make a probably ridiculously slow time cut. Maybe make the events on Friday or Monday so the rest of us won't have to suffer with 300 tris trying to get a 10 minute standard in the 500.
I'm also not sure the goal of USMS is to make USAT triathlons safer.
There is probably some tie-in to be had between the two organizations but not at the expense of turning USMS into some USAT qualifying program. 95% of tris just try to survive the swim, which is vastly different from the point of a swim meet.
It will grow both our sports, lower insurance premiums and make triathlons safer.
This is a tough one for me to evaluate. I'm not sure I want USMS meets, especially those between Jan and March to basically become overrun with USAT members try to make a probably ridiculously slow time cut. Maybe make the events on Friday or Monday so the rest of us won't have to suffer with 300 tris trying to get a 10 minute standard in the 500.
I'm also not sure the goal of USMS is to make USAT triathlons safer.
There is probably some tie-in to be had between the two organizations but not at the expense of turning USMS into some USAT qualifying program. 95% of tris just try to survive the swim, which is vastly different from the point of a swim meet.
