this thread is here for us to share tid bits of wisdom about swimming
stuff like
get your cap wet before you put it on.
keep your racing suit dry before you race.
Don't warm up in your racing suit
don't breathe on the last stroke into a turn
or your first stroke out of a turn
ande
Unless your name is Fortress, then it's OK. :thhbbb:
Paul
In the future, I am doing anything not to have to swim against bare walls in a championship meet. I don't particularly notice people in adjacent lanes anyway. (Besides, I've only entered an NT once with the meet director's permission. Otherwise my times are in the ballpark.) My view is that sandbagging or shaving your time slightly is so commonplace it's ridiculous. The only people who typically don't are the ones seeded first and they are assured of lane 4.
Tip: If you are looking for a good time and it's not a practice meet, pick a fast pool with lane lines and no bare walls.
Tip: Put plastic baggies on your feet to slip into fast skins more easily.
Tip: Put your goggles under your cap.
Tip: Get a good ENT doc. Swimming is hazardous on the sinuses.
Trick your mind; always be happy with your performance.
If you can't, then think of the disappointment as fuel for
the next training cycle; an opportunity.
I don't see how seeding yourself slow is an issue. But if you seed yourself fast you will:
1. slow the meet up.
2. displace someone who deserves to be in the final heat.
In my mind it should be OK to seed with a slow time.
That's a good point.... didn't think it all the way through.
I bring this up because I have a meet where I swim the 100 free and 500 free back to back.
It seems like if you want to absolutely guarantee not swimming in an outside lane you should enter yourself with a ridiculously fast time, not a sandbagged time.
Not that I'm encouraging this, but this would do the trick...
seeding yourself either slow or fast will slow the meet up. to demonstrate, let's say there's 4 heats of 100 free, and the times in each heat are 1:15, 1:10, 1:05, and 1:00 just as an example. If someone with a 1:00 time sandbags, it moves a slower swimmer up a notch and increases the time the fast heat, for example the heats would take 1:15, 1:10, 1:05, and 1:05. If someone with a 1:15 seeds up to the final heat, it slows down the final heat without a compensating time drop in the other heats, they would be 1:15,1:10,1:05, and 1:15. In reality I think this only becomes a factor in longer races. 5 or 10 seconds here doesn't add up to much.
tip: remember what race you are swimming before diving in.
