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.
Again, we have to accomodate each other. At any meet with 200 people, there are 200 different goals even if they are along the same theme. I really don't care about sandbagging or what people are doing in the pool around me. It's nice to have the ideal race conditions, and again, that depends on what the race and what you are trying to do! I should start another silly thread on how it irks me no one else is split requesting in the lanes around me and how that's so wrong and that spilt requesting is the only bona fide goal in masters competition. TEE HEE HEE just kidding!
No, what really irks me is that article in SWIMMER magazine about foods you should never eat or something like that. EVERY SINGLE food mentioned is a STAPLE in my diet, particularly SWEDISH FISH. Now, I do agree they aren't good for you, but the article is a rehash about everything we already KNOW. So stop writing dumb recycled articles, and the article should be HOW TO MODIFY or SUBSTITUTE items. I need jaadams to back my up on this, my McD soulmate. And there is some weird underground Swedish Fish diversity program going on. Nearly every store I go to has replaced the red bags with mixed colors. You can hardly get a full red bag and they look suspciously like old stock.
And back to the thread, I don't mind sandbaggers at all. I suppose experience with many different things that could happen at a swim meet, and particularly with masters meets...it just doesn't phase me. If the timeline was off at a USA meet, I have totally different standard. I would expect it to be machine gun blasting military precision to the time line, and a check of touchpads or a falsestart heat with irk me!
This is just some comic relief.
Again, we have to accomodate each other. At any meet with 200 people, there are 200 different goals even if they are along the same theme. I really don't care about sandbagging or what people are doing in the pool around me. It's nice to have the ideal race conditions, and again, that depends on what the race and what you are trying to do! I should start another silly thread on how it irks me no one else is split requesting in the lanes around me and how that's so wrong and that spilt requesting is the only bona fide goal in masters competition. TEE HEE HEE just kidding!
No, what really irks me is that article in SWIMMER magazine about foods you should never eat or something like that. EVERY SINGLE food mentioned is a STAPLE in my diet, particularly SWEDISH FISH. Now, I do agree they aren't good for you, but the article is a rehash about everything we already KNOW. So stop writing dumb recycled articles, and the article should be HOW TO MODIFY or SUBSTITUTE items. I need jaadams to back my up on this, my McD soulmate. And there is some weird underground Swedish Fish diversity program going on. Nearly every store I go to has replaced the red bags with mixed colors. You can hardly get a full red bag and they look suspciously like old stock.
And back to the thread, I don't mind sandbaggers at all. I suppose experience with many different things that could happen at a swim meet, and particularly with masters meets...it just doesn't phase me. If the timeline was off at a USA meet, I have totally different standard. I would expect it to be machine gun blasting military precision to the time line, and a check of touchpads or a falsestart heat with irk me!
This is just some comic relief.