Meets canceled due to extreme heat?

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Anonymous wrote:I know in years past, individual pools have elected to start their swim meet earlier to better navigate the heart during a heatwave. Given the extreme nature of the current heatwave (length, and 100+ degree temps) is there a possibility that the NVSL will call Saturday’s meets?

It is a pool. What am I missing here.

It's not the swimmers that are the issue. It's all the volunteers that will be standing around in sun for multiple hours. Ideally teams should set up tents for the timers and officials.

It’s also the swimmers.
Former lifeguard/swimmer - have you ever competitively swam (especially long distances) in a high 80s/90+° pool. It can not only impact performance but strongly impact peoples ability to cool down correctly. It’s hard to cool pools with the multi day heat like this, and now the humidity is moving in. You need to drain and re-add cooler water and it can be of limited benefit.

Who has pools that have water temps in the high 80s/90+ right now? Ours is around 80.

Plus, most kids are only swimming 25s and 50s.

[Anonymous]

I wish my kid was a swimmer instead of a soccer player. Not sure how he’s going to make it through his full day soccer camp this weekend. A pool would be a god send!

[Anonymous]

We are starting an hour early. We will also have
- large coolers filled with water in both team areas and by the timers.
- concession stand has double the normal amount of water and gatorade, and will sell at a discount even if we lose money
- frozen washcloths at the ready for anyone who may need additional help cooling down
- tents and umbrellas anywhere we can put them
- a volunteer who will check to refill those water jugs and offer cold beverages to the marshals, ref and starter

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Anonymous wrote:I know in years past, individual pools have elected to start their swim meet earlier to better navigate the heart during a heatwave. Given the extreme nature of the current heatwave (length, and 100+ degree temps) is there a possibility that the NVSL will call Saturday’s meets?

Stay up off them streets if you can’t take the heat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know in years past, individual pools have elected to start their swim meet earlier to better navigate the heart during a heatwave. Given the extreme nature of the current heatwave (length, and 100+ degree temps) is there a possibility that the NVSL will call Saturday’s meets?

It is a pool. What am I missing here.

It's not the swimmers that are the issue. It's all the volunteers that will be standing around in sun for multiple hours. Ideally teams should set up tents for the timers and officials.

It’s also the swimmers.
Former lifeguard/swimmer - have you ever competitively swam (especially long distances) in a high 80s/90+° pool. It can not only impact performance but strongly impact peoples ability to cool down correctly. It’s hard to cool pools with the multi day heat like this, and now the humidity is moving in. You need to drain and re-add cooler water and it can be of limited benefit.

What long distance events are kids swimming in NVSL?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know in years past, individual pools have elected to start their swim meet earlier to better navigate the heart during a heatwave. Given the extreme nature of the current heatwave (length, and 100+ degree temps) is there a possibility that the NVSL will call Saturday’s meets?

It is a pool. What am I missing here.

It's not the swimmers that are the issue. It's all the volunteers that will be standing around in sun for multiple hours. Ideally teams should set up tents for the timers and officials.

It’s also the swimmers.
Former lifeguard/swimmer - have you ever competitively swam (especially long distances) in a high 80s/90+° pool. It can not only impact performance but strongly impact peoples ability to cool down correctly. It’s hard to cool pools with the multi day heat like this, and now the humidity is moving in. You need to drain and re-add cooler water and it can be of limited benefit.

What long distance events are kids swimming in NVSL?

Yeah I’m a former swimmer/lifeguard too and I really don’t think this is a concern for summer league meets in the morning. The races are so short, and it won’t be dangerously hot until later in the day.

An all day club meet with prelims/finals would be a different story. I remember going to an outdoor summer Zones meet where it was extremely hot. I swam really well in the morning and was in the top 3 or 4 heading into finals. Then at finals my whole body cramped up during the race and I was barely able to finish. It was disappointing and scary. I felt like all of my muscles were shutting down at the same time… not good in a long course pool. I had tried to stay hydrated but was just totally depleted after sitting out in the heat for so long earlier that day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know in years past, individual pools have elected to start their swim meet earlier to better navigate the heart during a heatwave. Given the extreme nature of the current heatwave (length, and 100+ degree temps) is there a possibility that the NVSL will call Saturday’s meets?

It is a pool. What am I missing here.

It's not the swimmers that are the issue. It's all the volunteers that will be standing around in sun for multiple hours. Ideally teams should set up tents for the timers and officials.

It’s also the swimmers.
Former lifeguard/swimmer - have you ever competitively swam (especially long distances) in a high 80s/90+° pool. It can not only impact performance but strongly impact peoples ability to cool down correctly. It’s hard to cool pools with the multi day heat like this, and now the humidity is moving in. You need to drain and re-add cooler water and it can be of limited benefit.

What long distance events are kids swimming in NVSL?

Exactly. The longest any kid swims is 100m. This isn’t the Olympics. It’s summer swim which barely qualifies as competitive.

[Anonymous]

I actually think the bigger risk is for the adults. Kids are in and out of the pool, coaches are reminding them to drink. It's the adults standing on deck or in non-shaded spectator areas that are more likely to have heat-related issues.

[Anonymous]

They won' cancel. There is no time in the schedule to make up the meets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know in years past, individual pools have elected to start their swim meet earlier to better navigate the heart during a heatwave. Given the extreme nature of the current heatwave (length, and 100+ degree temps) is there a possibility that the NVSL will call Saturday’s meets?

It is a pool. What am I missing here.

It's not the swimmers that are the issue. It's all the volunteers that will be standing around in sun for multiple hours. Ideally teams should set up tents for the timers and officials.

It’s also the swimmers.
Former lifeguard/swimmer - have you ever competitively swam (especially long distances) in a high 80s/90+° pool. It can not only impact performance but strongly impact peoples ability to cool down correctly. It’s hard to cool pools with the multi day heat like this, and now the humidity is moving in. You need to drain and re-add cooler water and it can be of limited benefit.

Who has pools that have water temps in the high 80s/90+ right now? Ours is around 80.

In the DC area? Absolutely none. It's not hot enough at night for the pools to heat up yet.

My IL's pool is 91 right now. In Arizona. So until nighttime temps hit the upper 80's no pool in the area is going to have a pool that's too hot to swim in.

[Anonymous]

We just finished and it’s starting to get unbearably hot right now.

[Anonymous]

It really wasn’t that bad this morning. Hot but not unbearable. We started 30 mins early. It helped but also likely wasn’t necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really wasn’t that bad this morning. Hot but not unbearable. We started 30 mins early. It helped but also likely wasn’t necessary.

It was the right call to start early, and I agree it wasn’t miserable.
But any longer in the sun would have been very hard for the volunteers and coaches.
One of our enthusiastic young adult asst coaches was close to passing out. (Too much enthusiasm and no shade.)

[Anonymous]

We started on time and finished at 11. It wasn’t too bad, but having canopies for the timers and kids, as well as the team areas, was key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know in years past, individual pools have elected to start their swim meet earlier to better navigate the heart during a heatwave. Given the extreme nature of the current heatwave (length, and 100+ degree temps) is there a possibility that the NVSL will call Saturday’s meets?

It is a pool. What am I missing here.

It's not the swimmers that are the issue. It's all the volunteers that will be standing around in sun for multiple hours. Ideally teams should set up tents for the timers and officials.

This is why DH and I are splitting a timer slot. We'll each do half the meet, so that neither of us has to stand out there the entire time.

+1
Thankfully our club puts tents up for the timers to stand under.