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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand the difference between time trials and races. Wouldn’t time trials take just as long as races? How would that save time? I legitimately don’t understand this, not trying to sound snarky, but hoping to understand the point of a time trial vs. a race.[/quote]

I posted earlier about time trials at the end of a session. The difference is that a swimmer who wants to do a time trial has to do it at the very end of the session, usually at the end of a finals night. So it’s only the officials and a couple of timers that have to stick around. Which is obviously very nice of them to do. But everyone else who swam in the meat gets to leave.

I don’t recall anybody time trialing a long distance event, usually a 50 or a 100 where somebody is just hundredths away from a cut. And I don’t remember there being more than a couple of heats’ worth of swims. Sometimes a friend or competitor would do it with the person trying to make a cut so they could feel like it was a race. And yeah, it probably was at the end of the finals night for JO’s or open champs, for kids trying to get junior and senior national cuts.[/quote]

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