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...
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.
I'd do it again in a heartbeat too. Although my latest ploy is either not to sign up for back-to-back events (and byatch about it because they're almost always fly/back) or scratch.
Since I get constantly ragged on and since the fly-back events have been back to back in virtually every meet I can remember swimming in the last year (and are for my next one), I have ceased to feel any guilt over my seed times should I enter them.
And, uh, who won all the rubber duckies this weekend in his heats? Not me!
However, I typically aim for Option C.
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.
I'd do it again in a heartbeat too. Although my latest ploy is either not to sign up for back-to-back events (and byatch about it because they're almost always fly/back) or scratch.
Since I get constantly ragged on and since the fly-back events have been back to back in virtually every meet I can remember swimming in the last year (and are for my next one), I have ceased to feel any guilt over my seed times should I enter them.
And, uh, who won all the rubber duckies this weekend in his heats? Not me!
However, I typically aim for Option C.
