There is a Master's meet in Atlanta this Sunday which starts at 10 AM. I haven't been to one before so I was wondering how long they last and is there a certain order to the events.
Not to defend the sandbaggers out there, but there are times when I've entred a slower time due to the event schedule. For example, when two events I want to swim are back-to-back (or on either side of events with low participation like the 200 fly or 400 IM). In those cases I will enter a slower seed time for the first event in order to have some rest before the second. It has nothing to do with blowing people away and everything to do with not blowing up myself!
We've had people do that, and tell me they're doing that. It's exactly why we put in the anti-sandbagging rule in the first place. The first year it happened, and we got lots of complaints, the people in question pointed out that we never said it was not allowed. So it's not allowed in our meets now.
You've seen the order of events. Everyone goes by the same order. If there's not enough time for you between two events, then don't do one of them.
If everyone in the meet swam back-to-back events, and sandbagged the first one to get more rest, we'd add piles of time to the timeline. And then those same sandbaggers are going to complain about how long things take.
Not to mention the 85-year-old who you run over in heat 1.
-Rick
Not to defend the sandbaggers out there, but there are times when I've entred a slower time due to the event schedule. For example, when two events I want to swim are back-to-back (or on either side of events with low participation like the 200 fly or 400 IM). In those cases I will enter a slower seed time for the first event in order to have some rest before the second. It has nothing to do with blowing people away and everything to do with not blowing up myself!
We've had people do that, and tell me they're doing that. It's exactly why we put in the anti-sandbagging rule in the first place. The first year it happened, and we got lots of complaints, the people in question pointed out that we never said it was not allowed. So it's not allowed in our meets now.
You've seen the order of events. Everyone goes by the same order. If there's not enough time for you between two events, then don't do one of them.
If everyone in the meet swam back-to-back events, and sandbagged the first one to get more rest, we'd add piles of time to the timeline. And then those same sandbaggers are going to complain about how long things take.
Not to mention the 85-year-old who you run over in heat 1.
-Rick
