Following a meet the Sat just gone I would like to share my disasterous experience with you all and to create a thread where people can share their similar dissapointing experiences...
I was all physced up to do 100BR - hoping for a new PB - dived in and - oh no my goggles start fill up! I completethe first 50 and just have to stop as I can't see the wall or anything. I of course get DQ, but was so angry since the goggles were fine in the warm up. As you can imagine for every other event that day I had my goggles strapped so tight I could have stopped my blood flow!
Anyone else want to share simillar experiences? Suits fallen off - stopped too early - wrong stroke?
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A year ago I was doing an event at a meet and I didn't tuck either. Result? The left eye piece of my goggles slipped down and right back over my eye hard enough to bruise my eyelid slightly. But what was worse was that I lost a contact lens and realized what happened before I had a chance to take my first stroke. I kept on and finished and I don't even remember the results as I was so p.o.'d with myself. Although I had a spare lens, I ordered a replacement and lost that one, too! So, I had to order yet another replacement. Turned out to be a pretty expensive meet for the original fifteen bucks' entry fee. As Ken points out from his own experience, since I didn't stop, I didn't get DQ'd. One good thing that came about is that I finally found a pair of goggles that stay in place.
A year ago I was doing an event at a meet and I didn't tuck either. Result? The left eye piece of my goggles slipped down and right back over my eye hard enough to bruise my eyelid slightly. But what was worse was that I lost a contact lens and realized what happened before I had a chance to take my first stroke. I kept on and finished and I don't even remember the results as I was so p.o.'d with myself. Although I had a spare lens, I ordered a replacement and lost that one, too! So, I had to order yet another replacement. Turned out to be a pretty expensive meet for the original fifteen bucks' entry fee. As Ken points out from his own experience, since I didn't stop, I didn't get DQ'd. One good thing that came about is that I finally found a pair of goggles that stay in place.
