Major 1650 sandbagging by a forum member

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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.
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  • At my taper meet I want to swim BR fast and don't care about other events.If I can swim some fly or IM at a time that doesn't interfere with my focus events I might.I really don't want to swim a bunch of events just to swim a bunch of events. I just finished our Assn. Meet where I swam 6 events plus 4 relays,swimming 3 events back to back twice ant 2 events back to back another time.I did this because our team needed the points and I tried to approach it as a workout/tune up for Nats with low expectations for times.Anyone who looked at my seed times based on my prior best times would have thought I was sandbagging,but I know my limitations and my predictions were pretty close.I had fun mostly and felt good about helping the team.The "mostly"part is that although my plan was to be paced and not over do,that is really hard for me,especially as a relay swimmer.By the end of the meet my left shoulder was hurting.It was worse yesterday.It is a little better today.If it doesn't get better by tomorrow I'll see a Dr and hope I'll be OK for Indy.
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  • At my taper meet I want to swim BR fast and don't care about other events.If I can swim some fly or IM at a time that doesn't interfere with my focus events I might.I really don't want to swim a bunch of events just to swim a bunch of events. I just finished our Assn. Meet where I swam 6 events plus 4 relays,swimming 3 events back to back twice ant 2 events back to back another time.I did this because our team needed the points and I tried to approach it as a workout/tune up for Nats with low expectations for times.Anyone who looked at my seed times based on my prior best times would have thought I was sandbagging,but I know my limitations and my predictions were pretty close.I had fun mostly and felt good about helping the team.The "mostly"part is that although my plan was to be paced and not over do,that is really hard for me,especially as a relay swimmer.By the end of the meet my left shoulder was hurting.It was worse yesterday.It is a little better today.If it doesn't get better by tomorrow I'll see a Dr and hope I'll be OK for Indy.
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