The club
has a time trial series that runs throughut the swimming year on Sundays starting at 5:30 and is a competition for all main pool swimmers. On these nights sessions do not run in their normal form. The idea is that swimmers get a chance to see how they are progressing and a good chance to get a bit of competition experience before doing it for real.
There are 4
events at 25m (7-8 years) or 50m (9+) on all four strokes, although the
9's only do 25m Fly.
There is also a seperate competition over 100m on IM and
the four strokes.
Points
are awarded 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the top 10 places in each age group for the fastest
times (i.e. 4 wins would equal 40 points), but also as the year progresses a category for those who have
made the most improvement is also awarded.
The session starts with a age divided warm up which is broken into two 15 minute sessions before the competition starts. After this, generally swimmers race with their peers but we don't have any formal system of organising who swims where.
The competition is not ran under ASA laws.
The competiton works on a Best 7 scores from 8 possible scores.
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2012 Schedule
| Round No# |
Date |
First Stroke |
| Round 1 |
Sunday 5th February |
Backstroke |
| Round 2 |
Sunday 18th March |
Breastroke |
| Round 3 |
Sunday 15th April |
Fly |
| Round 4 |
Sunday 13th May |
Frontcrawl |
| Round 5 |
Sunday 10th June |
Backstroke |
| Round 6 |
Sunday 8th July |
Breaststroke |
| Round 7 |
Sunday 2nd September |
Fly |
| Round 8 |
Sunday 7th October |
Frontcrawl |
