the people have spoken, correct?
I've attached the results of votes on rule proposals that I (subjectively) thought would interest most swimmers the most. There was much more, of course, things like passing the budget, more minor rule changes, administrative stuff, etc.
Of interest to many people would be the approved rotation of (three) schedules for nationals that will begin in 2012; I can't easily reproduce that here, and I also think Championship was directed to make some minor tweaks (I may be misremembering). Championship presented 5 possible schedules and the HOD went thru 2 rounds of voting, where one schedule was voted off the island in each round.
Championship tried a few new/different ideas, like putting the distance events (400/500 free and 400 IM) at the end of the day of some schedules, rather than the beginning, and separating the relays (on the day in which there are two sets of relays). The thinking of the first change was, I believe, that some distance people feel that they are persecuted when they are forced to always swim first thing in the morning. But every distance person I talked to -- I was sitting next to Laurie Hug during this voting -- really really hated the idea of putting them at the end, and the two schedules that were voted out were the ones in which this idea was tried. I am actually wondering whether this feature of the "most hated" schedules dominated all others in the voting.
The idea of separating the two relays was also much hated, and I think it was this that Championship was directed to fix in one of the approved schedules.
I am happy to report, though, that the persecution of butterflier/backstrokers halted, for the most part. However, one of the schedules approved was my own personal "most hated." It has the 200 fly and 200 back on the same day, separated only by the 100 IM...which means that for LCM nationals, they are back-to-back. But there were no other instances of fly/back events being back-to-back. Still a big improvement over the current rotation, at least for me.
Did you notice there was a lot of drafting in the open water section? :bolt:
Don't even get me started...
I'm interested in hearing more about 2012 LCM following the Olympic Trials.
There was a presentation about this. From my admittedly-fuzzy recollection -- we're talking about a 5+ hour meeting, after all -- there are going to be a number of seats for the last 4 days of trials to be made available exclusively for purchase by masters swimmers.
Right after trials, the pool will be available for practice for the US Olympic team; USMS will have maybe a couple hours for warmup/practice on each day. So USMS nationals will start a couple days after trials end.
the people have spoken, correct?
I've attached the results of votes on rule proposals that I (subjectively) thought would interest most swimmers the most. There was much more, of course, things like passing the budget, more minor rule changes, administrative stuff, etc.
Of interest to many people would be the approved rotation of (three) schedules for nationals that will begin in 2012; I can't easily reproduce that here, and I also think Championship was directed to make some minor tweaks (I may be misremembering). Championship presented 5 possible schedules and the HOD went thru 2 rounds of voting, where one schedule was voted off the island in each round.
Championship tried a few new/different ideas, like putting the distance events (400/500 free and 400 IM) at the end of the day of some schedules, rather than the beginning, and separating the relays (on the day in which there are two sets of relays). The thinking of the first change was, I believe, that some distance people feel that they are persecuted when they are forced to always swim first thing in the morning. But every distance person I talked to -- I was sitting next to Laurie Hug during this voting -- really really hated the idea of putting them at the end, and the two schedules that were voted out were the ones in which this idea was tried. I am actually wondering whether this feature of the "most hated" schedules dominated all others in the voting.
The idea of separating the two relays was also much hated, and I think it was this that Championship was directed to fix in one of the approved schedules.
I am happy to report, though, that the persecution of butterflier/backstrokers halted, for the most part. However, one of the schedules approved was my own personal "most hated." It has the 200 fly and 200 back on the same day, separated only by the 100 IM...which means that for LCM nationals, they are back-to-back. But there were no other instances of fly/back events being back-to-back. Still a big improvement over the current rotation, at least for me.
Did you notice there was a lot of drafting in the open water section? :bolt:
Don't even get me started...
I'm interested in hearing more about 2012 LCM following the Olympic Trials.
There was a presentation about this. From my admittedly-fuzzy recollection -- we're talking about a 5+ hour meeting, after all -- there are going to be a number of seats for the last 4 days of trials to be made available exclusively for purchase by masters swimmers.
Right after trials, the pool will be available for practice for the US Olympic team; USMS will have maybe a couple hours for warmup/practice on each day. So USMS nationals will start a couple days after trials end.
