What seed times do you use when registering for Master's meets?
A) your best time in a master's meet
B) Your most recent time
C) What you think you will swim for this particular meet
D) other
I have been going with 'C', but am curious what other folks do...
Well, 'in trouble' is such a subjective term. In my circle of friends, sandbagging, aka 'pulling a fortress', will subject you to endless ridicule and scorn. Entering an NT when you have never swam that event is OK. I still try to put an estimated time down.
I put my best time in that course for the last 12 months. If I don't have a time for that event, I convert a time from a different course if I do have it. Example, I converted my best SCY 100 Free to LCM for my LCM National 100 Free seed time.
Now there are people, who will choose to swim back to back events and will, even tho they are very fast swimmers, put an NT entry time for the first event to try and gain as much recovery time as possible. Some of them even try to justify this by indicating that the meet director OKed this questionable behavoir.
Paul
Well, 'in trouble' is such a subjective term. In my circle of friends, sandbagging, aka 'pulling a fortress', will subject you to endless ridicule and scorn. Entering an NT when you have never swam that event is OK. I still try to put an estimated time down.
I put my best time in that course for the last 12 months. If I don't have a time for that event, I convert a time from a different course if I do have it. Example, I converted my best SCY 100 Free to LCM for my LCM National 100 Free seed time.
Now there are people, who will choose to swim back to back events and will, even tho they are very fast swimmers, put an NT entry time for the first event to try and gain as much recovery time as possible. Some of them even try to justify this by indicating that the meet director OKed this questionable behavoir.
Paul
