Here's a thread for the ladies to discuss anything that relates to women and swimming. For example, feel free to discuss how disgustingly ugly fastskins are, how the "curse" can kill a meet, how suits don't fit, how swimming wrecks your hair, how hormones unhinge you, etc.
What I do not like is the sandbagging of times by swimmers to very selfishly provide themselves with calm water.
THAT practice is what creates havoc with turbulence in all the wrong places during a race.
And does not serve the concept of racing to bring out a faster swim.
I typically sandbag with an NT to protest the discrimination against fly-backers that exists. Never any rest between our events, and it sucks.
I don't mind swimming with tall fast men in LCM. Sometimes not in SCM either. But this is my heat of the 100 back this weekend, and I am less than thrilled with it:
1 Stevenson, Chris M45 VMST 59.08
2 Britt, Clay M48 ANCM 1:02.00
3 Elshafei, Emad M43 TERR 1:04.84
4 Edson, Edward M28 TERR 1:07.00
5 Elliott, John M39 GERM 1:08.00
6 Jones, Andrew M45 NBAC 1:08.00
7 Kress, Jay M46 FXCM 1:13.00
8 Livingston, Leslie W48 GMUP 1:14.00
Also, of note, there is major female sandabagging going on as the female WR holder in your age group, Ahelee, is seeded at 1:17 when she swam a 1:09 at this meet last year ... So I get drowned by men while she has calm water for another record attempt. Hmm..... I seeded myself at the time I swam at this meet last year.
What I do not like is the sandbagging of times by swimmers to very selfishly provide themselves with calm water.
THAT practice is what creates havoc with turbulence in all the wrong places during a race.
And does not serve the concept of racing to bring out a faster swim.
I typically sandbag with an NT to protest the discrimination against fly-backers that exists. Never any rest between our events, and it sucks.
I don't mind swimming with tall fast men in LCM. Sometimes not in SCM either. But this is my heat of the 100 back this weekend, and I am less than thrilled with it:
1 Stevenson, Chris M45 VMST 59.08
2 Britt, Clay M48 ANCM 1:02.00
3 Elshafei, Emad M43 TERR 1:04.84
4 Edson, Edward M28 TERR 1:07.00
5 Elliott, John M39 GERM 1:08.00
6 Jones, Andrew M45 NBAC 1:08.00
7 Kress, Jay M46 FXCM 1:13.00
8 Livingston, Leslie W48 GMUP 1:14.00
Also, of note, there is major female sandabagging going on as the female WR holder in your age group, Ahelee, is seeded at 1:17 when she swam a 1:09 at this meet last year ... So I get drowned by men while she has calm water for another record attempt. Hmm..... I seeded myself at the time I swam at this meet last year.
