[wonicooker]

Is anyone doing the Masters' One Hour Postal Swim? My masters team is really lame and wasn't planning it, but I ran into an old friend on a different team and she invited me to join a group from her team in doing the 1 HR next weekend. I'm thinking about it, but it might be tough... I have a 17 mile run scheduled the day before. Haven't been training with long sets either.

 

[SpartyGirl]

Please explain...what is a postal swim?

 

[Stitcher]

Postal swims are when you swim the time/distance/event/whatever...<br>
with a "proctor" if you like...<br>
then, send in your results through the mail.<br>
Then, someone collects them, collates them, and you see who "wins."<br><br>
I've never done one, but they sound like fun.

 

[ForceD]

So it's like a "virtual" swim meet?

 

[Stitcher]

Yep....<br>
a virtual swim meet.<br><br>
usually they are distance events, it seems.<br><br>
There's a postal "check off" meet...where you submit your times for EVERY event that could be run in a meet. You have a set period of time to do it, too...usually a month.

 

[4boysmom]

Why would I want to do that? To finish DFL? I already know I'm slow!

 

[wonicooker]

Nooo... there are lots of elderly masters swimmers. I usually go head to head with this lady in her late 70's

 

[Stitcher]

There's this man that always shows up to our local master's meet. He's in the 85-59 age group....he might be aging up this year...dunno.<br><br>
Anyway.....he does the distance races and some backstroke races. He starts the Freestyle ones from a dive off the blocks, too.<br><br>
I'm impressed. One year, he, his son, and his granddaughter all came to the same meet and competed together. It was soooo cool.

 

[hahaoya]

Gosh, that's how many poin...err...yards in the bag?<br><br><i>Doing the math.</i>

 

[runbikesink]

My swims often make me go postal.

 

[Cashmason]

I thought some crazy came in and started shooting at the swimmers.

 

[regiolanthe]

Just browsing my local Masters website and came across this world record just set by Maine Masters for the 200M free relay.<br><br><a href="http://www.greatbaymasters.org/07PortsWR.html" target="_blank">http://www.greatbaymasters.org/07PortsWR.html</a><br><br>
Sheesh ... Nice to know there's SOMETHING I might be able to do at that age. Kudos <img alt="banana.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/banana.gif"> to them.<br><br>
Reg.

 

[Swimmerbee]

why don't we all do a 1 hour or half hour postal this month & post. you are supposed to have someone else observe and count for you but for the KR 1 hour/1/2 hour we could be on the honor system. Its raining hard so I'll be in the pool the rest of the week, I need some motivation!

 

[Stu373]

That made Mt. Dew fly out of my nose.

 

[Stu373]

I'd be up for that...how do you sign up?

 

[Ella]

Me too. Maybe start a new thread with how it works and people can sign up?<br><br>
Ella <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif">

 

[jkaiser20]

<br>
Yeah, that'll never work around here. Honor among triathletes is like virtue among..., well you should know the rest.

 

[neil donnelly]

I am in for that<br><br>
One thing we did at the tri club a couple of years ago was to do a couple of 1/2 hr swims a couple of months apart We then had a competition not to see who swam the furthest but who improved by the highest percentage<br><br>
n

 

[Tri_coach06]

I'm in too.<br><br>
CS

 

[Stitcher]

If everyone wants to do it, why not sign up for the postal meets and do it that way, too?<br><br>
You can do it as "unattached."<br><br>
I'd have to check my most recent Swimmer mag, but you might not need a USMS number to do it, either. [edit]<-- I was wrong...you do have to be a registered USMS swimmer. But, for a sample of the forms that they use, you can go to: <a href="http://www.usms.org/longdist/ldchamps.php#swimmerinfo" target="_blank">http://www.usms.org/longdist/ldchamps.php#swimmerinfo</a> Pace charts and recording sheets are there..... that might be something you could use for recording results. [/edit]<br><br>
They also have "checkoff" meets that are postal. You are on the honor system, but during the course of a year, you check of each of the events in a swim meet. There are some cool shirts that have been created for these types of events.<br><br>
Anyone who ever did the "Court Street Shuffle" in Athens, Oh...... remember those shirts? The swim checkoff events are similar. <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif">