Many swimmers I have talked to over the years have said that they would like to race some nonstandard event. Frequently mentioned examples are: a 75 butterfly, a 3-stroke IM, a 25 SDK, or a distance stroke event. Suppose you could enter some nonstandard events at a SCY meet, what would you pick? Perhaps a 2x400 breaststroke family relay? (Count me out on that one, but it does sound cool.) I thought about posting a poll, but it would be difficult to list all of the possibilities and I might miss some good idea, so I'm just inviting free-form response. Second question: would you travel to Philadelphia to swim it?
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This is a great idea! It's very similar to the team pursuit event in speed skating (maybe cycling, too?). If you wanted to make it similar to the skating event you'd have only two teams in the water at the same time and they'd start from opposite ends of the pool. It's single elimination, so times are really irrelevant.
We sometimes did this at the end of a training session way back when. I was often the lone female swimmer bringing up the end of the lane of 4 or 5 guys. We'd all set off on 5 sec intervals with the intention to catch the person in front of you.
And what normally happened was the middling swimmers got caught leaving me and the first guy in the lane trying to catch each other (with me eventually failing). Looking back I wonder why I just didn't give up earlier!
But it would be fun to put one swimmer from each of 5 or 6 teams in a lane and see what happens.
This is a great idea! It's very similar to the team pursuit event in speed skating (maybe cycling, too?). If you wanted to make it similar to the skating event you'd have only two teams in the water at the same time and they'd start from opposite ends of the pool. It's single elimination, so times are really irrelevant.
We sometimes did this at the end of a training session way back when. I was often the lone female swimmer bringing up the end of the lane of 4 or 5 guys. We'd all set off on 5 sec intervals with the intention to catch the person in front of you.
And what normally happened was the middling swimmers got caught leaving me and the first guy in the lane trying to catch each other (with me eventually failing). Looking back I wonder why I just didn't give up earlier!
But it would be fun to put one swimmer from each of 5 or 6 teams in a lane and see what happens.
