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
Look, if it makes it easier for you to rationalize sandbagging by telling me I have my trunks in a bunch over this, I am fine with that. The reality is that some of your fellow Masters swimmers don't particularly like it.
But there are all kinds of things in masters meets that are annoying. I often have to swim next to either REALLY fast, really young or male swimmers in the fastest heat of my best event at meets in my LMSC. My last two zone meets I had to swim in the lane next to a 23 year old woman who went somewhere in the vicinity of a 2:15 for a 200 breaststroke. I (at 46) can manage somewhere around a 2:40. Do I like watching her kick my ass? Not really, but I can't let that affect my race.
I often end up swimming in other meets with a heat of 4 men and maybe one other woman. Not ideal. But workable. In masters we rarely have the luxury of a perfectly seeded heat!
Look, if it makes it easier for you to rationalize sandbagging by telling me I have my trunks in a bunch over this, I am fine with that. The reality is that some of your fellow Masters swimmers don't particularly like it.
But there are all kinds of things in masters meets that are annoying. I often have to swim next to either REALLY fast, really young or male swimmers in the fastest heat of my best event at meets in my LMSC. My last two zone meets I had to swim in the lane next to a 23 year old woman who went somewhere in the vicinity of a 2:15 for a 200 breaststroke. I (at 46) can manage somewhere around a 2:40. Do I like watching her kick my ass? Not really, but I can't let that affect my race.
I often end up swimming in other meets with a heat of 4 men and maybe one other woman. Not ideal. But workable. In masters we rarely have the luxury of a perfectly seeded heat!
