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:
* My opinion is that sandbagging is not an appropriate solution to "I'm swimming back to back events". Sorry, that's the event order. It's the same thing I tell college coaches at a championship meet when their swimmer is doing back-to-back events. You knew the order of events a long time ago. You knew they'd be back to back. If you can't handle that, then only swim one of the events. (And this is why I shuffle up the event order every year.)
* For our New England championship meets, we _do_ put wording in the meet information saying that you are expected to seed yourself with your appropriate best time. So if you come to our meets, you are expected to abide by that. We reserve the right to correct your seed time if we decide that you "made a mistake".
* I also know that it's hard to pick seed times. It is. I just entered a SCM meet, which will be, I think, my first competition in about 4 years. It took me about 20 minutes to decide on what my seed times should be. Was I inclined to pad it a bit? Absolutely! I haven't raced in a meet in 4 years! So yes, I understand this concern.
-Rick
Don't scare me man!! I'm traveling to your meet in Dec. I hate the order of events, but I'm sure everyone has a beef with the order every meet and you could never get an order that would make everyone happy. So no big deal. As a result, I'm probably opting not to swim my favored back-to-back events. But that means I'm going to swim a few events that I've never swum before. I really have no idea what I'll swim, for example, the 200 back in -- so it'll be a real guestimate. Converters are of no use to me. My times drop off a lot from 50s to 100s and I'm sure even more to 200s. I'll do my best, but don't yell at me please. I'm a whimpy sprinter. :bouncing:
* My opinion is that sandbagging is not an appropriate solution to "I'm swimming back to back events". Sorry, that's the event order. It's the same thing I tell college coaches at a championship meet when their swimmer is doing back-to-back events. You knew the order of events a long time ago. You knew they'd be back to back. If you can't handle that, then only swim one of the events. (And this is why I shuffle up the event order every year.)
* For our New England championship meets, we _do_ put wording in the meet information saying that you are expected to seed yourself with your appropriate best time. So if you come to our meets, you are expected to abide by that. We reserve the right to correct your seed time if we decide that you "made a mistake".
* I also know that it's hard to pick seed times. It is. I just entered a SCM meet, which will be, I think, my first competition in about 4 years. It took me about 20 minutes to decide on what my seed times should be. Was I inclined to pad it a bit? Absolutely! I haven't raced in a meet in 4 years! So yes, I understand this concern.
-Rick
Don't scare me man!! I'm traveling to your meet in Dec. I hate the order of events, but I'm sure everyone has a beef with the order every meet and you could never get an order that would make everyone happy. So no big deal. As a result, I'm probably opting not to swim my favored back-to-back events. But that means I'm going to swim a few events that I've never swum before. I really have no idea what I'll swim, for example, the 200 back in -- so it'll be a real guestimate. Converters are of no use to me. My times drop off a lot from 50s to 100s and I'm sure even more to 200s. I'll do my best, but don't yell at me please. I'm a whimpy sprinter. :bouncing:
