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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Honest mistakes are okey dokey. Also, if you haven't competed "in who knows how many years", your cool.
It is the deliberate fabrication of a seed time for an advantage that gets my goat.
Be that advantage still water for a good swim, or resting up because you're tired from your last event and you still blow away the heat, or it is the last event of a meet and you wanna go home. Swim close to your seed time.
I don't have as big of a problem with the speedy chap who did a mid 40 for the first 100 of a 1650. I gather that he also hit his seed time. Part of me would have liked to have seen it from the water, but if I was going for a PR I would have been irked for about 18 minutes.
Honest mistakes are okey dokey. Also, if you haven't competed "in who knows how many years", your cool.
It is the deliberate fabrication of a seed time for an advantage that gets my goat.
Be that advantage still water for a good swim, or resting up because you're tired from your last event and you still blow away the heat, or it is the last event of a meet and you wanna go home. Swim close to your seed time.
I don't have as big of a problem with the speedy chap who did a mid 40 for the first 100 of a 1650. I gather that he also hit his seed time. Part of me would have liked to have seen it from the water, but if I was going for a PR I would have been irked for about 18 minutes.
