What is a B Time?
After the completion of my son's first Short Course season, the Long Course season started and as a result, our first Long Course swim meet (if you missed my earlier post about what Short Course & Long Course season means, click here ). In the meet announcement, it said that in order to qualify for the Long Course swim meet, the swimmer needed to have "3x B Times". I remember thinking to myself "What is a B Time?" I had no idea what they were. 😅 USA Swimming has various Time Standards and the most basic one you should note is their "Motivational Times" for different age groups. As of writing this post, the current one is the 2017-2020 Age Group Motivational Times, so it has been around for a few years. You could probably find various Time Standards from your local swim club's website &/or from your LSC (Local Swimming Committee) website (my blog post about how USA Swimming is structured into Zones & LSCs can be seen here ). But it i...