Our coach just sent out that there are time changes, but not exactly what those changes are -- I assume it is still fluid? Anyone know?

Change the events to IMR & then condense into Friday & Saturday. IMR events are much shorter distances.

Then we can have fun with what the R stands for.

Win-win

Anonymous wrote:They took down the condensed schedule. Pro tip Marlins, if you’re not ready to make any official announcements don’t mess around in Meet Mobile where everyone can see it and then start talking about changes to the schedule.

What do you mean? The schedule is still up on Meet Mobile. But yes, I am still waiting for the official announcement or an update to their meet announcement. Is it confirmed that it is a two day schedule?

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Anonymous wrote:Have swimmers choose one event they want to drop.

This is IMX. You have to swim all 5 events.

Didn’t they already swim all 5 to qualify?

They took down the condensed schedule. Pro tip Marlins, if you’re not ready to make any official announcements don’t mess around in Meet Mobile where everyone can see it and then start talking about changes to the schedule.

Anonymous wrote:Have swimmers choose one event they want to drop.

This is IMX. You have to swim all 5 events.

Have swimmers choose one event they want to drop.

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Anonymous wrote:I would rather they just cancel Sunday.

This meet is tough enough as it is, to do this to swimmers is silly.

Honestly, my 13-14 would rather get the whole meet in than just skip the Sunday events. Whether I want to be at the pool for 6 hours each day is a different story though lol.

Same. Given the format of the meet - the whole purpose is to swim all IMX events - canceling Sunday's events defeats the idea and format. My swimmer would rather compress the meet than cancel an entire day of events. The 9-12 schedule with all the 500s (3 hours of it!) is rough, though.

Anonymous wrote:I would rather they just cancel Sunday.

This meet is tough enough as it is, to do this to swimmers is silly.

Honestly, my 13-14 would rather get the whole meet in than just skip the Sunday events. Whether I want to be at the pool for 6 hours each day is a different story though lol.

I would rather they just cancel Sunday.

This meet is tough enough as it is, to do this to swimmers is silly.

Anonymous wrote:Look at the current estimated timeline https://www.potomacmarlins.com/potomacmarlins/__eventform__/1512215_6cdd54b7-95bc-4768-94ec-74a6f01cd7aa.pdf

Sessions 1 and 2: can’t move any swimmers to other pool so let’s use 5 hrs 56 min for the estimate to finish 500 Free.

Then look at 2 Fly in sessions 3 & 4. Estimated 1 hr 8 min & 1 hr 30 min. Move some heats to other pool and let’s say can finish 2 Fly in 1 hr 19 min.

Then 200 IM in sessions 3 & 4. Estimated 1 hr 4 min one pool and 1 hour 26 min in other pool. Move some swimmers and lets’s say 1 hr 15 min to finish.

So roughly 5:56 + 1:19 + 1:15 for Friday, that would be like 8.5 hrs. Start events at 7 and at 3:30 ish.

Guessing a lot of 13-14 swimmers kind of close in seeding for most events, so for 13-14 swimmers maybe 7 hours of the clock to swim their 3 events.

Warm up for 1 hour and start 12U at 4:30.

12U sessions 5 & 6, 3:04 and 2:30 in length in current timeline. Move some swimmers to other pools, make it 2 hrs 47 minutes.

So 12U ends 7:17pm.

Someone please check my math.

Long day for officials but couldn’t they do that?

Session: 1 Friday 13-14 Girls

Day of Meet: 1 Starts at 07:30 AM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 5 Girls 13-14 200 Butterfly 253 32 u 07:30 AM _______
Finals 7 Girls 13-14 200 IM 253 32 u 09:02 AM _______
Finals 1 Girls 13-14 500 Freestyle 252 32 u 10:28 AM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 253 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 758 96
Finish Time 01:42 PM _______

Session: 2 Friday 13-14 Boys

Day of Meet: 1 Starts at 07:30 AM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 6 Boys 13-14 200 Butterfly 194 25 u 07:30 AM _______
Finals 8 Boys 13-14 200 IM 194 25 u 08:38 AM _______
Finals 2 Boys 13-14 500 Freestyle 194 25 u 09:42 AM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 194 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 582 75
Finish Time 12:08 PM _______

Session: 3 Friday 12&U Girls

Day of Meet: 1 Starts at 01:45 PM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 15 Girls 9-10 100 Butterfly 98 13 u 01:45 PM _______
Finals 13 Girls 11-12 100 Butterfly 242 31 u 02:08 PM _______
Finals 19 Girls 9-10 100 Breaststroke 98 13 u 02:55 PM _______
Finals 17 Girls 11-12 100 Breaststroke 242 31 u 03:20 PM _______
Finals 11 Girls 9-10 200 Freestyle 98 13 u 04:12 PM _______
Finals 3 Girls 11-12 500 Freestyle 241 31 u 04:50 PM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 340 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 1,019 132
Finish Time 08:14 PM _______

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Session: 4 Friday 12&U Boys

Day of Meet: 1 Starts at 01:45 PM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 16 Boys 9-10 100 Butterfly 85 11 u 01:45 PM _______
Finals 14 Boys 11-12 100 Butterfly 202 26 u 02:05 PM _______
Finals 20 Boys 9-10 100 Breaststroke 85 11 u 02:44 PM _______
Finals 18 Boys 11-12 100 Breaststroke 202 26 u 03:04 PM _______
Finals 12 Boys 9-10 200 Freestyle 85 11 u 03:48 PM _______
Finals 4 Boys 11-12 500 Freestyle 201 26 u 04:19 PM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 287 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 860 111
Finish Time 07:07 PM _______

Session: 5 Saturday 13-14 Girls

Day of Meet: 2 Starts at 07:30 AM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 9 Girls 13-14 200 Breaststroke 253 32 u 07:30 AM _______
Finals 21 Girls 13-14 200 Backstroke 253 32 u 09:09 AM _______
Finals 23 Girls 13-14 400 IM 253 32 u 10:43 AM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 253 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 759 96
Finish Time 01:38 PM _______

Session: 6 Saturday 13-14 Boys

Day of Meet: 2 Starts at 07:30 AM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 10 Boys 13-14 200 Breaststroke 194 25 u 07:30 AM _______
Finals 22 Boys 13-14 200 Backstroke 194 25 u 08:43 AM _______
Finals 24 Boys 13-14 400 IM 194 25 u 09:53 AM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 194 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 582 75
Finish Time 12:03 PM _______

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Session: 7 Saturday 12&U Girls

Day of Meet: 2 Starts at 01:45 PM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 25 Girls 11-12 100 Backstroke 242 31 u 01:45 PM _______
Finals 27 Girls 9-10 100 Backstroke 98 13 u 02:39 PM _______
Finals 29 Girls 11-12 200 IM 242 31 u 03:03 PM _______
Finals 31 Girls 9-10 200 IM 98 13 u 04:33 PM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 340 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 680 88
Finish Time 05:16 PM _______

Session: 8 Saturday 12&U Boys

Day of Meet: 2 Starts at 01:45 PM Heat Interval: 15 Seconds / Back +15 Seconds
Round Event Entries Heats Starts at
Finals 26 Boys 11-12 100 Backstroke 202 26 u 01:45 PM _______
Finals 28 Boys 9-10 100 Backstroke 85 11 u 02:30 PM _______
Finals 30 Boys 11-12 200 IM 202 26 u 02:51 PM _______
Finals 32 Boys 9-10 200 IM 85 11 u 04:06 PM _______

Swimmers Counts for Warm-ups: 287 ==== ====
Entry / Heat Totals: 574 74
Finish Time 04:41 PM _______

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Anonymous wrote:Our club sent out a new timeline. Two day meet now. The kids thought this meeting was was hard before it just got tougher.

Can you share it here? We haven’t heard anything.

It’s up on Meet Mobile.

They pulled it back. I don't think it is a done deal. It would mean 7 hour sessions for the 13-14s which seems insane. Who would do that to a kid?

The 12&U combined is just as long on the schedule which USA swimming does not allow. So they will have to come up with a new plan.

There are over 400 swimmers swimming 500 free at the end of Friday. OMG!

As long as it's still fast to slow I'm ok with that. Just tell the kids at the end to go home in the afternoon and come back at night for finals.

There are no finals at this meet.

What is the 4 hour rule?

Anonymous wrote:Look at the current estimated timeline https://www.potomacmarlins.com/potomacmarlins/__eventform__/1512215_6cdd54b7-95bc-4768-94ec-74a6f01cd7aa.pdf

Sessions 1 and 2: can’t move any swimmers to other pool so let’s use 5 hrs 56 min for the estimate to finish 500 Free.

Then look at 2 Fly in sessions 3 & 4. Estimated 1 hr 8 min & 1 hr 30 min. Move some heats to other pool and let’s say can finish 2 Fly in 1 hr 19 min.

Then 200 IM in sessions 3 & 4. Estimated 1 hr 4 min one pool and 1 hour 26 min in other pool. Move some swimmers and lets’s say 1 hr 15 min to finish.

So roughly 5:56 + 1:19 + 1:15 for Friday, that would be like 8.5 hrs. Start events at 7 and at 3:30 ish.

Guessing a lot of 13-14 swimmers kind of close in seeding for most events, so for 13-14 swimmers maybe 7 hours of the clock to swim their 3 events.

Warm up for 1 hour and start 12U at 4:30.

12U sessions 5 & 6, 3:04 and 2:30 in length in current timeline. Move some swimmers to other pools, make it 2 hrs 47 minutes.

So 12U ends 7:17pm.

Someone please check my math.

Long day for officials but couldn’t they do that?

Your math is a little off. The old timeline for the 500 free had the 13-14s and the 11-12s together. The 13-14 girls 500 free is estimated on the old timeline to take 3 hrs 15 minutes, with 1 hour 30 minutes for the 200 Fly and 1 hour 25 minutes for the 200 IM added to that the girls pool will run for just over 6 hours on the new schedule. The 13-14 boys session will take 2 hours 25 minutes for the 500 free, with 1 hour 20 minutes for the 200 Fly and 1 hour 4 minutes for the 200 IM for a total session time of just under 5 hours. Meet mobile has the updated 12 and under session starting at 1:45 pm, so that is very tight if the 13-14 girls wouldn’t be done until 1:30, but they could move say the last 6-7 heats of the girls 500 free over to the boys pool since that pool finishes an hour earlier.

The 12 and under timeline would be 3 hours 20 minutes for the girls 500 free, and 3 hours 4 minutes for the other events, for a session time of 6 hours 25 minutes for the girls. For the boys the 500 free would be 2 hours 40 minutes, and 2 hours 30 minutes for the other events, for a session time of 5 hours 10 minutes. You could do the same thing of moving the last heats of the girls 500 free to the boys pool, but it still is over 4 hours for each session. Even with what will likely be many scratches they will be hard pressed to get the 12 and under timelines in compliance for Friday.

Look at the current estimated timeline https://www.potomacmarlins.com/potomacmarlins/__eventform__/1512215_6cdd54b7-95bc-4768-94ec-74a6f01cd7aa.pdf

Sessions 1 and 2: can’t move any swimmers to other pool so let’s use 5 hrs 56 min for the estimate to finish 500 Free.

Then look at 2 Fly in sessions 3 & 4. Estimated 1 hr 8 min & 1 hr 30 min. Move some heats to other pool and let’s say can finish 2 Fly in 1 hr 19 min.

Then 200 IM in sessions 3 & 4. Estimated 1 hr 4 min one pool and 1 hour 26 min in other pool. Move some swimmers and lets’s say 1 hr 15 min to finish.

So roughly 5:56 + 1:19 + 1:15 for Friday, that would be like 8.5 hrs. Start events at 7 and at 3:30 ish.

Guessing a lot of 13-14 swimmers kind of close in seeding for most events, so for 13-14 swimmers maybe 7 hours of the clock to swim their 3 events.

Warm up for 1 hour and start 12U at 4:30.

12U sessions 5 & 6, 3:04 and 2:30 in length in current timeline. Move some swimmers to other pools, make it 2 hrs 47 minutes.

So 12U ends 7:17pm.

Someone please check my math.

Long day for officials but couldn’t they do that?