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'm not sure how sandbagging is cheating unless you are using epo and pulling on the lane line at the same time.
Masters is different than age-group swimming. You cannot expect to improve every time you drop in the water (in fact my improvement stopped 20 years ago). I put 1-2 seconds slower on a 200 because I feel I'm going to be a little slower every year. I guess I should just put my college times down each time and when I add 12-15 secs, I can make myself feel like a crappy, old swimmer --but at least I won't be accused of...oh the horror...sandbagger:drown:.
Kurt,
Putting a 200 time 1-2 sec slower than a PB is fine. What I'm talking about is a consistent behavoir of signifcantly slower seed times. Swimming better than expected or worse than expected happens. But there are folks out there that will deliberately seed a 100 time at least 5 seconds slower than thier PB (said PB swam very recently) just to get clear water. Well, what about the person who was honest with thier seed but gets to eat that person's wake?
I'm not sure how sandbagging is cheating unless you are using epo and pulling on the lane line at the same time.
Masters is different than age-group swimming. You cannot expect to improve every time you drop in the water (in fact my improvement stopped 20 years ago). I put 1-2 seconds slower on a 200 because I feel I'm going to be a little slower every year. I guess I should just put my college times down each time and when I add 12-15 secs, I can make myself feel like a crappy, old swimmer --but at least I won't be accused of...oh the horror...sandbagger:drown:.
Kurt,
Putting a 200 time 1-2 sec slower than a PB is fine. What I'm talking about is a consistent behavoir of signifcantly slower seed times. Swimming better than expected or worse than expected happens. But there are folks out there that will deliberately seed a 100 time at least 5 seconds slower than thier PB (said PB swam very recently) just to get clear water. Well, what about the person who was honest with thier seed but gets to eat that person's wake?
