I organized a swim recently and we had non-wetsuit and wetsuit categories. I'm fine with accommodating wetsuits for open water swimming. However, the challenge comes up in the awards portion. Should wetsuit swimmers be entitled to the exact same type of awards as non-wetsuit swimmers? The problem this poses as an organizer is that suddenly you need to purchase twice the number of awards to accommodate a separate division (wetsuit), even though everyone's swimming the same race.
What might be fair for next time (learning as I go) is to award the top 3 male/female non-wetsuit swimmers for each event, but just the #1 male and female in the wetsuit category for each event. They at least get acknowledged for their efforts.
Curious if anyone else has thoughts on this.
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I was a little peeved at the Nubble Light swim this year when I realised at the awards that wetsuits had age group awards and nakeds only had one overall awards in each gender. I thought I was the only naked woman but lo and behold someone must have changed divisions at the last moment and beat be by about 2 minutes.....:bolt:
I was a little peeved at the Nubble Light swim this year when I realised at the awards that wetsuits had age group awards and nakeds only had one overall awards in each gender. I thought I was the only naked woman but lo and behold someone must have changed divisions at the last moment and beat be by about 2 minutes.....:bolt:
