Can someone please tell me what sandbagging is? I heard some people discussing it at my last meet, but didn't know exactly what they were talking about. It didn't sound very flattering though by the tone of their voices. Thanks in advance. :banana:
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You can do a few things to help "ballpark" your meet times.
* Ask your coach
* Do a "Race Pace" set in practice where you break your race into segments and give yourself exactly 10 seconds rest between doing each leg all out. Then just add up the swimming time discarding the rest periods. Eg: for a 200, do 4 x 50's 10 seconds rest as fast as you can.
* Figure that if the hardest you went in practice was about 97% effort, do some math on the times. If you go a 1:25 100 free in practice (97%), that's 85 seconds = 1.03 * racetime. Your racetime would be 85/1.03 = 82.5, or about 1:21.5. If you are a practice sandbagger, 97% maybe is too high.
Your mileage may vary.
Just try to get yourself in the correct heat so both you and the rest of your heat have a good competition. Anything inventive done for other reasons is probably not good sportsmanship.
You can do a few things to help "ballpark" your meet times.
* Ask your coach
* Do a "Race Pace" set in practice where you break your race into segments and give yourself exactly 10 seconds rest between doing each leg all out. Then just add up the swimming time discarding the rest periods. Eg: for a 200, do 4 x 50's 10 seconds rest as fast as you can.
* Figure that if the hardest you went in practice was about 97% effort, do some math on the times. If you go a 1:25 100 free in practice (97%), that's 85 seconds = 1.03 * racetime. Your racetime would be 85/1.03 = 82.5, or about 1:21.5. If you are a practice sandbagger, 97% maybe is too high.
Your mileage may vary.
Just try to get yourself in the correct heat so both you and the rest of your heat have a good competition. Anything inventive done for other reasons is probably not good sportsmanship.
