Looks like it is to gain 20 minutes of rest before doing the 400 IM.
What do you folks think? Fair play or not?
I say anyone attempting the 1650 and 400 IM back to back deserves some slack.
I don't disagree with that, although as I have said in the past I prefer to swim in heats with other swimmers who have entered legitimate seed times. However, when others on this forum have posted comments to the effect that , hey it's only Masters swimming (in other words, chill out), they seem to be forgetting that in most cases the sandbagger is sandbagging because he or she is trying to achieve a specific goal in a specific event (eg a pb, an nr, or a wr, which he or she is taking very seriously).
Exactly.
I would never say "it's just masters." I am saying let people get their times without attaching some ethical stigma to them. We are in the business of getting times and split requests are legal. I don't understand the pettiness.
I don't disagree with that, although as I have said in the past I prefer to swim in heats with other swimmers who have entered legitimate seed times. However, when others on this forum have posted comments to the effect that , hey it's only Masters swimming (in other words, chill out), they seem to be forgetting that in most cases the sandbagger is sandbagging because he or she is trying to achieve a specific goal in a specific event (eg a pb, an nr, or a wr, which he or she is taking very seriously).
Exactly.
I would never say "it's just masters." I am saying let people get their times without attaching some ethical stigma to them. We are in the business of getting times and split requests are legal. I don't understand the pettiness.
