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...
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My college roommate did that in his first master's meet. He was a good college swimmer, took a couple of years off, and started competing masters around age 25. He trained a bit, but really had no idea how fast he would go, so entered with NT. He ended up in heats with 70 to 90 year old swimmers who he beat by quite a bit. Some of the other folks in his heats were a little ticked off at him.
My advice would be to swim your event all out in practice before registering for a meet to at least get a ball park idea of what seed time to use.
Darn, this is exactly my story for a meet upcoming on Sunday. Except I am 10 years out of college and only back in training for about a month. I put No Time because I read in the Master's regulations that mirepresenting seed times can get you in trouble. I didn't really know what misrepresenting meant, I thought maybe I could only put a time from another Master's meet, so I put No Time.
How grievous an offense is this to etiquette? I will see if I can get them changed.
My college roommate did that in his first master's meet. He was a good college swimmer, took a couple of years off, and started competing masters around age 25. He trained a bit, but really had no idea how fast he would go, so entered with NT. He ended up in heats with 70 to 90 year old swimmers who he beat by quite a bit. Some of the other folks in his heats were a little ticked off at him.
My advice would be to swim your event all out in practice before registering for a meet to at least get a ball park idea of what seed time to use.
Darn, this is exactly my story for a meet upcoming on Sunday. Except I am 10 years out of college and only back in training for about a month. I put No Time because I read in the Master's regulations that mirepresenting seed times can get you in trouble. I didn't really know what misrepresenting meant, I thought maybe I could only put a time from another Master's meet, so I put No Time.
How grievous an offense is this to etiquette? I will see if I can get them changed.
