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.
... like poor Patrick ... We should instead make them feel really bad about it because they have theoretically reduced competition by approximately 12% in their heat.And, in my case, only 11% because the heat was mis-seeded and I got stuck in lane 9.
Not that anyone else in the heat particularly cared or even noticed ...I dutifully talked with the swimmer in lane 8 and she was appreciative of me letting her know.
And, for the record, the time was NOT sandbagged. I actually went much slower (without disrupting the heat). So, what's that make me? A failed sandbagger? I don't think so ... I see myself as someone who was entered at my reasonably expected time and had a poor swim.
So, come here not to bury poor Patrick, but to empathize with him for a situation we've all been in: having a bad swim.
... like poor Patrick ... We should instead make them feel really bad about it because they have theoretically reduced competition by approximately 12% in their heat.And, in my case, only 11% because the heat was mis-seeded and I got stuck in lane 9.
Not that anyone else in the heat particularly cared or even noticed ...I dutifully talked with the swimmer in lane 8 and she was appreciative of me letting her know.
And, for the record, the time was NOT sandbagged. I actually went much slower (without disrupting the heat). So, what's that make me? A failed sandbagger? I don't think so ... I see myself as someone who was entered at my reasonably expected time and had a poor swim.
So, come here not to bury poor Patrick, but to empathize with him for a situation we've all been in: having a bad swim.
