2010 SCM Zone Championships

I did more meets this year than I've done since 2003, and I'll probably do even more next year. Truthfully, it has been years (5+) that nearly every local meet is on the verge of being canceled due to low enrollment. On a regular basis I receive emails urging me to enter a meet. I think there are just too many meets competing for too few swimmers. So here's a question for the group that several of us were discussing this morning. What's the point in doing a SCM meet if you never swim SCM? I look at a meet as a way to gauge progress, improvements, and decide if/how to alter my training. We train SCY for about 8-9 months and LCM for the remainder of the year. If I'm not ever training SCM, I don't know how to prepare nor what to do with any results. Training for SCM is about the same as training for SCY.If you swim some SCM meets you'll have a good idea what the times mean(or you can take your SCM times and divide by 1.1 to get a rough SCY equivalent.) 2 reasons to swim SCM:first it is the least swum venue in the US so it offers the best chance of making Top Ten,second,it is the most swum venue in the rest of the world if you want to compare your times to everyone else,or get FINA TT.A third reason ,applying to only a few people, is that you can't get a WR in SCY.

I did more meets this year than I've done since 2003, and I'll probably do even more next year. Truthfully, it has been years (5+) that nearly every local meet is on the verge of being canceled due to low enrollment. On a regular basis I receive emails urging me to enter a meet. I think there are just too many meets competing for too few swimmers. So here's a question for the group that several of us were discussing this morning. What's the point in doing a SCM meet if you never swim SCM? I look at a meet as a way to gauge progress, improvements, and decide if/how to alter my training. We train SCY for about 8-9 months and LCM for the remainder of the year. If I'm not ever training SCM, I don't know how to prepare nor what to do with any results. Training for SCM is about the same as training for SCY.If you swim some SCM meets you'll have a good idea what the times mean(or you can take your SCM times and divide by 1.1 to get a rough SCY equivalent.) 2 reasons to swim SCM:first it is the least swum venue in the US so it offers the best chance of making Top Ten,second,it is the most swum venue in the rest of the world if you want to compare your times to everyone else,or get FINA TT.A third reason ,applying to only a few people, is that you can't get a WR in SCY.