Sandbaggers' Club

So I guess using your 'logic' :blah: I'm also guilty of sandbagging. Are someone's meds :notworking:? Or are you still mad cause I won our gridge? Wanna go for best out of three?

If god had not wanted us to sandbag, he would have made neither sand nor bags nor, for that matter, sandbaggers. I am trying to add something philosophical on the nature of aging and diminishing expectations, but my eyes keep wandering over to the smileys adjacent to this typing window. What are those two smileys doing--the one whose head appears to climb on top of the other ones head and does something very odd. The point, I suppose, is that when you reach my age, and The Fortress will one day reach this age, life is so completely distracting that who is to say what sandbagging really means anymore? You could be swimming along really fast and suddenly start counting tiles on the bottom of the pool, and you would be lucky to come close to the "sandbagged" time. You got to plan for this kind of thing. Why those damn smileys! One of them now seems to be kissing a worm? Where am I?

Well, Ms Poopy Pants, are we a little crabby now? Don't worry, next week will be even worse when the bloating sets in (no, this has nothing to do with female stuff). Let's get that diaper changed and we'll all feel better soon.

I always enter with the time I expect to swim. Of course at Nationals I expect to record all personal bests, so the previous PBs I entered with won't be realistic, but oh well! :)

Excuse me? My actual 100 fly time was only .12 under my seed time. I have never sandbagged a seed time. And for nationals I hope to go way under my seed times which are my masters best times, but didn't want to enter a time that was under my best time. I only got one end lane ;)

I enter the time I expect to swim.That is not my PB time unless it's a taper meet.I am usually fairly accurate.I see the logic of a slow time for more rest,but I want to swim with the folks my speed,if I need more rest I try to swim fewer events(unless it's at our Assn.meet and every point is important to the club,then I just suffer:cane:.)I hate it when meets run fast.At our Zones they ran 2 courses and it took half as long as I anticipated.At another meet the 85 yr old swimmer didn't come(the one seeded in 8 min for the 200 BR) and so the combined heat one and two so instead of 12 min rest I got 4(sorry this should have been on the rant thread.)

Nearly all 10 lanes of my 100 IM heat last weekend were seeded at the same time - that is, we all had three consecutive zeros. Most, I think, were like me: I don't swim this race often, and guessed my time in round numbers. But the Mission Viejo pool is deep with wide lanes, big gutters and heavy lane lines that kill turbulence. Everyone seems to get clean water. I'm going to try a 100 fly next weekend. Should I enter my slow 400 IM split (THAT would be sandbagging), a guess based on workouts, or should I double my 200 IM split or just enter my 100 back time (the last two are close)? The only thing that seems clear is my guess will be wrong. So, you see: I am a sandbagger, and I think it's a great club.

I always enter the time I anticpate swimming for that particular event. I know at smaller meets some folks will enter slower times so as to get more rest if another longer/hard event is next. 29.5 back Ande??? C'mon, that's lame.

Hands down the single biggest sandbagger at this meet is John Smiths 1:50 200 free time. His signature event in college where he was 2nd one year with a 1:35, a masters swimmer that was 1:44 the last time he swam it, and just recently unrested at altitude breaks the national record in the 100 with a 47.5. I hereby relinquish Fort of her obligation to buy beers for everyone due to incessant whining and designate JS at the "bank".

I understand that the announcer at nationals will routinely make fun of any blatant sandbaggers. For the record, Paul Smith has never been made fon of for that reason (although he frequently gets picked on for other reasons).