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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Wrongly accusing someone of sandbagging is the worst. This past season I would have been accused many times. At the Y Nats I dropped 13 seconds in the 400 IM. The race just felt good and I had an awesome push from the lady in the lane next to me. That meet I had serveral breakthrough swims. I seeded my self within a second of my best time. The 100 free I was seeded with a 1:05 which was my fastest at the time and went a 1:01.2. I just cut my workouts back and rested for the meet, not a full taper.
So I guess if you want to say that someone is sandbagging b/c they are off a few seconds then I guess I would be a sandbagger.
For the most part I try to guess at times on things I have never swam in a meet based on what I do in a practice. When I do swim events that I have swam before I will base my time on how I have been feeling in practice and physically. You can't always go your best. I have not been close to a 1:01 since. Even at Federal Way when I was tapered I was slower b/c I put too much pressure on myself and was very nervous.
So in general, I agree with Tom, don't accuse anyone of sandbagging unless you know for sure they are.
I also agree with those about trying to get rest between races. I would not get upset with anyone that put a no time so they could be in the 1st heat of an event to have rest for another event that they seeded themself correctly. That to me is not about trying to win by alot or get the heat prize, it is about wanting to swim the best they can and get rest.
Wrongly accusing someone of sandbagging is the worst. This past season I would have been accused many times. At the Y Nats I dropped 13 seconds in the 400 IM. The race just felt good and I had an awesome push from the lady in the lane next to me. That meet I had serveral breakthrough swims. I seeded my self within a second of my best time. The 100 free I was seeded with a 1:05 which was my fastest at the time and went a 1:01.2. I just cut my workouts back and rested for the meet, not a full taper.
So I guess if you want to say that someone is sandbagging b/c they are off a few seconds then I guess I would be a sandbagger.
For the most part I try to guess at times on things I have never swam in a meet based on what I do in a practice. When I do swim events that I have swam before I will base my time on how I have been feeling in practice and physically. You can't always go your best. I have not been close to a 1:01 since. Even at Federal Way when I was tapered I was slower b/c I put too much pressure on myself and was very nervous.
So in general, I agree with Tom, don't accuse anyone of sandbagging unless you know for sure they are.
I also agree with those about trying to get rest between races. I would not get upset with anyone that put a no time so they could be in the 1st heat of an event to have rest for another event that they seeded themself correctly. That to me is not about trying to win by alot or get the heat prize, it is about wanting to swim the best they can and get rest.
