Women's Locker Room

There was some serious sandbagging going on in the 200 free at the Warrenton meet. I didn't swim it, but I was watching and some of the times were like 15 seconds off the seed times... Do the pool circulation pumps get shut off when a meet is going on? I did my first meet two weekends ago and couldn't believe how fast the pool felt - and my stroke count was the same going both directions. I'd gotten my seed times by timing myself in one of my usual pools and beat those times by 6 seconds in the 50 'fly and 20 seconds in the 200 free. (They don't let you enter with "no time" here. You have to at least give an estimate.) I figure it had to be either something to do with the pool design - gutters about 2 feet below floor level? - or the pumps being shut off. Oh, and as long as I'm in the women's locker room - any ideas on strengthening fingernails? Mine seem to be made of paper lately. They're as short as they can go and I'm still tearing and breaking them.

There was some serious sandbagging going on in the 200 free at the Warrenton meet. I didn't swim it, but I was watching and some of the times were like 15 seconds off the seed times... Do the pool circulation pumps get shut off when a meet is going on? I did my first meet two weekends ago and couldn't believe how fast the pool felt - and my stroke count was the same going both directions. I'd gotten my seed times by timing myself in one of my usual pools and beat those times by 6 seconds in the 50 'fly and 20 seconds in the 200 free. (They don't let you enter with "no time" here. You have to at least give an estimate.) I figure it had to be either something to do with the pool design - gutters about 2 feet below floor level? - or the pumps being shut off. Oh, and as long as I'm in the women's locker room - any ideas on strengthening fingernails? Mine seem to be made of paper lately. They're as short as they can go and I'm still tearing and breaking them.