How do you folks feel about persons who misrepresent him/her self in this manner? These are from Heat 1 for each event recent swim meet.
1500 Free SCM
Seed Time - Time
45:00.00 - 25:50.75
40:00.00 - 26:08.92
45:00.00 - 29:57.58
45:00.00 - 20:52.58
400 Free SCM
Seed Time - Time
15:00.00 - 7:26.23
800 Free SCM
Seed Time - Time
21:00.00 - 13:53.86
20:25.00 - 16:42.46
I guess another corollary to this is why does USMS seed distance events slow-to-fast? All the USA Swimming meets I go to seed them fast-to-slow. If the events were seeded like this I bet the sandbagging problem would be greatly reduced.
The three SC state meets all seed events > 400 fast to slow. There is no way to make everyone happy with this one.
I think that MOST people enter with times they think they will be able to hit in regards to their recent training. For my meet last weekend I entered with the times I did last year at the same meet. Some of them weren't my fastest but they were close.
There will always be sandbaggers.
I guess another corollary to this is why does USMS seed distance events slow-to-fast? All the USA Swimming meets I go to seed them fast-to-slow. If the events were seeded like this I bet the sandbagging problem would be greatly reduced.
The three SC state meets all seed events > 400 fast to slow. There is no way to make everyone happy with this one.
I think that MOST people enter with times they think they will be able to hit in regards to their recent training. For my meet last weekend I entered with the times I did last year at the same meet. Some of them weren't my fastest but they were close.
There will always be sandbaggers.
