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...
I go with C for in-season meets... As Kirk noted, there's no point in me entering my shaved times from the year before because I won't be close. NOW, for people still on the rapid-improvement curve (usually people in their first couple years of competing or youngsters under 24) this is a pretty decent method...
For shave and taper meets, I usually enter my times from the previous year's "big" meet. Sometimes this completely backfires, as it did at SCY Nats this year when I entered the meet not yet knowing I was pregnant and swam some pretty slowwww times 11 weeks pregnant and quite nauseous.
I go with C for in-season meets... As Kirk noted, there's no point in me entering my shaved times from the year before because I won't be close. NOW, for people still on the rapid-improvement curve (usually people in their first couple years of competing or youngsters under 24) this is a pretty decent method...
For shave and taper meets, I usually enter my times from the previous year's "big" meet. Sometimes this completely backfires, as it did at SCY Nats this year when I entered the meet not yet knowing I was pregnant and swam some pretty slowwww times 11 weeks pregnant and quite nauseous.
