You're not a sprinter and you're not a pure distance swimmer. Your 50's & 1500's aren't as great as your 200's, 400's, & 500's. Your 100's aren't shabby. Let the D Divas take those 800's, 1000's, 1500's & 1650's. You're caught in the middle. You've got OK speed, but you can do those longer sets that make pure sprinters ill. You're well conditioned and tend to do well with back to back events. You're in great company, Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte are middle distance swimmers who have excellent 100's but not so great 50's. Man you can train.
This is the middle distance lane. Don't get lapped.
the breastroke lane
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after the race had already started, and declared it was illegal to count any distance less than 500 yards. So all the counters left, certainly to my surprise, and presumably to the surprise of the other 9 swimmers in the pool.
This rule is news to me. This is the 3rd 400 SCM free I've done, and for the other two (including at this same meet last year), everyone had counters, no problem.
The official was wrong. This is from the USMS rule book. Last time I checked, the 400 scm free was 16 lengths.
"102.10.6 Counters
A A swimmer in any individual event of 16 lengths or more, except the
individual medley, may appoint one counter to call lengths or indicate
lengths by visual sign"
after the race had already started, and declared it was illegal to count any distance less than 500 yards. So all the counters left, certainly to my surprise, and presumably to the surprise of the other 9 swimmers in the pool.
This rule is news to me. This is the 3rd 400 SCM free I've done, and for the other two (including at this same meet last year), everyone had counters, no problem.
The official was wrong. This is from the USMS rule book. Last time I checked, the 400 scm free was 16 lengths.
"102.10.6 Counters
A A swimmer in any individual event of 16 lengths or more, except the
individual medley, may appoint one counter to call lengths or indicate
lengths by visual sign"
