What do people think is the ideal number of events to swim per day at a meet? It seems that, for local meets, you're allowed to enter up to 5 events. That is way too many for me. I'm always gassed after 3 or end up scratching an event or relying on caffeine. Yet, I'd like to get more times in different events without traveling the countryside to go to zillions of meets. So, how many is too many if you want to swim fast?
One of the things I dislike about sandbagging is that you end up getting a lot of really unbalanced heats instead of well-matched ones where people can push each other. If each heat of the 500 has someone going 5:15, someone going 6:00, and someone going 7:30, they aren't going to be able to push each other the way people going 5:55, 6:00, and 6:05 can. At least that's my opinion in addition to the it's-no-fun-getting-blown-out-of-the-water thing. :-)
One of the things I dislike about sandbagging is that you end up getting a lot of really unbalanced heats instead of well-matched ones where people can push each other. If each heat of the 500 has someone going 5:15, someone going 6:00, and someone going 7:30, they aren't going to be able to push each other the way people going 5:55, 6:00, and 6:05 can. At least that's my opinion in addition to the it's-no-fun-getting-blown-out-of-the-water thing. :-)
