With the continued growth in USMS membership, I would submit that it's time to eliminate the regional teams at Nationals. Case in point: NCMS sent a "team" of 123 swimmers to Atlanta, enough to enter A, B, C, and D relays in many events (e.g. the mens 35+ 200 free relay in which our club team placed 13th behind eight regional teams). It's been argued that the formation of regional teams allows more swimmers to participate in relays, yet local clubs from North Carolina sent as many as thirty or more athletes and could have entered relays on their own as our club (with eight swimmers) did. Swim with the guys you actually train with.
Rich, besides Kleenex, the waist-mounted dispenser would need to have some sort of bottle with a hypoallergenic emollient. But I like the way you are thinking here! (Lord, I hope Ahelee isn't reading this thread. How soon before you and I join the List of Malefactors banned for life for inappropriate jocularity, or, as it is also sometimes called, word rape?)
Could the rest of you please take a moment to visit and vote on my just established poll here?
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Thanks!
Rich, besides Kleenex, the waist-mounted dispenser would need to have some sort of bottle with a hypoallergenic emollient. But I like the way you are thinking here! (Lord, I hope Ahelee isn't reading this thread. How soon before you and I join the List of Malefactors banned for life for inappropriate jocularity, or, as it is also sometimes called, word rape?)
Could the rest of you please take a moment to visit and vote on my just established poll here?
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
Thanks!
