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.
How? It may not matter. There might not be more than one heat if men and women swim separately as they do at most zone meets.
What aztimm said. By bumping yourself down, you also bump a slower person into a heat that is "too fast" for them. So you don't slow down heat 1, but you slow down heat 2. In a large event, you could theoretically cause a chain reaction that affects every single heat.
And it gets worse the longer the event. Often people worry less about their seed times in distance events. Being a minute off in the mile doesn't seem like much. It's not that much. But it adds up a whole lot quicker.
I don't want people to think I'm sort of "seed time enforcer". I'm not. I just want people to think a bit about their seed times. Our meets depend on everyone doing their part. If everyone decides to sandbag, it starts to defeat the purpose, too.
-Rick
How? It may not matter. There might not be more than one heat if men and women swim separately as they do at most zone meets.
What aztimm said. By bumping yourself down, you also bump a slower person into a heat that is "too fast" for them. So you don't slow down heat 1, but you slow down heat 2. In a large event, you could theoretically cause a chain reaction that affects every single heat.
And it gets worse the longer the event. Often people worry less about their seed times in distance events. Being a minute off in the mile doesn't seem like much. It's not that much. But it adds up a whole lot quicker.
I don't want people to think I'm sort of "seed time enforcer". I'm not. I just want people to think a bit about their seed times. Our meets depend on everyone doing their part. If everyone decides to sandbag, it starts to defeat the purpose, too.
-Rick
