[PayneTrain]

Uhh, just dropping a line on here tonight before I forget.

I have not heard any news of Chesapeake blocking off hotel rooms for any event and a cursory look through the email blasts via Ctrl+F search didn't yield this nugget of news, but if you are attending the SWVA district, might want to book your rooms last week. If that's not possible, I'd try to do it NOW.

The Blacksburg/Christiansburg area does hold a couple significant events year round. The notorious ones (VT Football and Men's BBall) will not impact our competition in terms of any logistics. However, my job involves working with Virginia Swimming and various other swim agencies to host their events and I know that the Age Group Championships for the state will be at the Christiansburg Aquatic Center the same weekend. As is the case for our event, a vast majority of participants will be doing team travel into the area as there are very few (read: 1) major local swim clubs. However, most VA swim clubs are what I would call monolithic in nature and very sophisticated operations. They probably have entire hotel floors booked up and meals already tightly planned out.

If you are going to this event and you don't want to bus your kids in from Salem or something crazy, there is no time like the present to take care of this.

I don't know if this is information the entirety of FC is aware of or has published but at the very least an extra reminder to whoever sees this won't hurt.