800/400 & McAllister's Rule

"Larry Weisenthal" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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McAllister's rule states that anytime a swimmer goes a
lifetime best in

the 800

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free on the first day of a meet, he/she will swim the 400
the next day

(800 day

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one and 400 day 2 is a common meet schedule sequence) at
exactly the same

pace

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as he/she swam the 800 the day before.

At the ongoing TYR Swim Meet of Champions in Mission
Viejo, Chad Carvin

once

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again proved the rule (which I have observed over the
years to be

uncannily

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correct most times). On Day one of the meet, he swam a
lifetime best 7:59

in

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800 (an "off" event for this 200/400 specialist). He must
have been

pretty

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pumped up to get a personal best at age 30. He outswam
both Larsen Jensen

and

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Justin Mortimer in posting this time. But the next day he
went 4:00 in

taking

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5th in the 400.

McAllister, by the way, is Bud McAllister, who coached
Janet Evans to 3

Olympic

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golds and WRs and who now coaches in Waterloo, Ontario.

Pretty interesting! Did you come to watch SMOC?

I missed it, getting geared up to go to Italy for FINA
world games.