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:
I unintentionally "sandbagged" my 200 breaststroke at nationals this summer. I hadn't swum a 200 *** in almost 20 years and hadn't done any long course swimming or much real training before I entered. I was conservative and entered at the cutoff time. What made matters worse was that there was one full heat in my age group and then me. They put me two heats earlier with the next age group up. I won my heat by quite a bit and went a lot faster than I knew I would. I did worry that I might have annoyed others but didn't intend to!!!
This is a natural occurrance, and I fully support it! :wiggle: :drink:
Same with NT's - if you truly have no idea, I fully support it!
Sandbagging is a purposeful padding of your time. You do it because you want to look good and finish first by a lot. Or you want to win the heat prize. Or whatever else. Sounds like you drastically underestimated yourself!
I have only sandbagged once - this last year, for the 1000. A teammate and I were looking to get a 500 time, but didn't want to swim it on the last day of the meet, so we swam the 1000 for a 500 time and a 500 warmdown. We did, however, warn the folks around us of our plan. We did finish faster than our seeds by ~20 seconds, but there were faster people in our heat.
I unintentionally "sandbagged" my 200 breaststroke at nationals this summer. I hadn't swum a 200 *** in almost 20 years and hadn't done any long course swimming or much real training before I entered. I was conservative and entered at the cutoff time. What made matters worse was that there was one full heat in my age group and then me. They put me two heats earlier with the next age group up. I won my heat by quite a bit and went a lot faster than I knew I would. I did worry that I might have annoyed others but didn't intend to!!!
This is a natural occurrance, and I fully support it! :wiggle: :drink:
Same with NT's - if you truly have no idea, I fully support it!
Sandbagging is a purposeful padding of your time. You do it because you want to look good and finish first by a lot. Or you want to win the heat prize. Or whatever else. Sounds like you drastically underestimated yourself!
I have only sandbagged once - this last year, for the 1000. A teammate and I were looking to get a 500 time, but didn't want to swim it on the last day of the meet, so we swam the 1000 for a 500 time and a 500 warmdown. We did, however, warn the folks around us of our plan. We did finish faster than our seeds by ~20 seconds, but there were faster people in our heat.
