Hey everybody, I'm new here, and relatively new to swimming as well (just joined a swim club/team this year, and I just turned 21). My first meet's coming up this weekend, and I'm excited/nervous for it, but my main question is regarding entry times for the meet...
Here's what I signed up with:
100 free - 1:20
50 free - :40
50 *** - :44
I didn't realize that the meet's going to be in a meter pool, instead of the yard pool that I'm used to. The times were mostly estimates, and I tried it out a few days ago just to double check, and I got :36 for the 50 free, and :40 for the 50 ***, which should be fine in the meter pool, I think, but my 100 free was exactly 1:20 when I tried it in the yard pool, which comes out to be more like 1:30 in a meter pool (according to an online conversion thing)...
So I'm just wondering - should I be really worried about that 100 free time? What should I do? I don't really know much about how meets work, but I don't want to be that one rude person ruining the heat for everybody else somehow. I feel like I'm gonna embarrass myself somehow, lol.
Sorry if this has been answered before, I tried to find an answer with the search feature, but I didn't see anything really relevant.
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If you can do those times in yards during practices, you can probably do them in short-course meters under race conditions.
In the heats you'll be seeded into, there will probably be plenty of others who are estimating seed times. Swim your own race!
If you can do those times in yards during practices, you can probably do them in short-course meters under race conditions.
In the heats you'll be seeded into, there will probably be plenty of others who are estimating seed times. Swim your own race!
