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.
UCLA swim meet this past Sunday. A person in the 40-44 age group put a 50 minute seed time, and swam it in 22:29.68.
That one does drive me up the wall. That person wanted to swim and go home so they put in the 50 minutes seed time to be in heat 1. But they screwed up the timeline of the meet for everyone else. The meet is now ahead of schedule by 20 minutes because they used the 50 minutes as anticipated time. People who do it should be drawn and quartered.
Or possibly make them take care of my kids for the extra hour I had to be at the pool just in case a few people pulled this maneuver in the 1650 and 500. That would be a more fitting punishment than drawing and quartering.
If you put in a reasonable time you are delaying the meet by a few minutes. This is from the aforementioned effect of having a slower person in a faster heat. In the 1650 this can potentially be a 5 minute change to the timeline depending on how many triathletes show up. For that drawing and quartering are unnecessary, the perpetrator has to buy a plate of appetizers for the group at the post meet get together.
UCLA swim meet this past Sunday. A person in the 40-44 age group put a 50 minute seed time, and swam it in 22:29.68.
That one does drive me up the wall. That person wanted to swim and go home so they put in the 50 minutes seed time to be in heat 1. But they screwed up the timeline of the meet for everyone else. The meet is now ahead of schedule by 20 minutes because they used the 50 minutes as anticipated time. People who do it should be drawn and quartered.
Or possibly make them take care of my kids for the extra hour I had to be at the pool just in case a few people pulled this maneuver in the 1650 and 500. That would be a more fitting punishment than drawing and quartering.
If you put in a reasonable time you are delaying the meet by a few minutes. This is from the aforementioned effect of having a slower person in a faster heat. In the 1650 this can potentially be a 5 minute change to the timeline depending on how many triathletes show up. For that drawing and quartering are unnecessary, the perpetrator has to buy a plate of appetizers for the group at the post meet get together.
