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...
Oh I think about this alot in event planning!!!
Depends on what event, what meet, what your goal is, and relative event position.
Like Paul says, if it's back to back events, or I am going for a split time, I will likely enter profoundly slow times so I am taken out of the seeding processs. But just in case my NT is not accepted, i'll enter a real time (like a 2:00 100 free or 5:00 200 free).
At Nationals, I enter with my very fastest actual reasonable relatively recent masters time. Signal you intend to swim fast. I can swim slow and to the side lanes every day in practice, i'm not paying over $1,000 to go to nationals and then try to avoid racing or being raced.
At selected local/zone/regional meets where it is mixed men and women heats, it seems customary to slightly but appropriately low ball times. You don't want to enter your time too slow (sandbag and not good racing, what's the point?), and you don't want to enter too fast (get your butt kicked by all the people who slightly and uniformly sandbagged and now are causing huge wake). There's a delicate balance there.
I never enter with a time faster than I have actually swum.
Oh I think about this alot in event planning!!!
Depends on what event, what meet, what your goal is, and relative event position.
Like Paul says, if it's back to back events, or I am going for a split time, I will likely enter profoundly slow times so I am taken out of the seeding processs. But just in case my NT is not accepted, i'll enter a real time (like a 2:00 100 free or 5:00 200 free).
At Nationals, I enter with my very fastest actual reasonable relatively recent masters time. Signal you intend to swim fast. I can swim slow and to the side lanes every day in practice, i'm not paying over $1,000 to go to nationals and then try to avoid racing or being raced.
At selected local/zone/regional meets where it is mixed men and women heats, it seems customary to slightly but appropriately low ball times. You don't want to enter your time too slow (sandbag and not good racing, what's the point?), and you don't want to enter too fast (get your butt kicked by all the people who slightly and uniformly sandbagged and now are causing huge wake). There's a delicate balance there.
I never enter with a time faster than I have actually swum.
