So I've got a taper meet coming up and it happens to be a USA-S SR State Meet. I'm doing this USA-S meet as there was only 1 one day USMS meet offered in GA this year that was LCM.
This meet is VERY fast at least for me.
The kids will be tapered and I expect them to drop tons of time. For me personally, I'm much more experienced in swimming well *tired* throughout the season and I never know what kind of effect a taper will have on me. So what I'm saying is that I don't know if I'll drop much time after a taper or not.
Should I enter my best times or should I fudge a little or even really sandbag? A friend of mine reminded me that I usually swim in full heats of men during masters mixed meets and it is true that the top SR girls will not be any faster than these men I've raced in the past. My concern was getting killed in my heat - again, something I'm used to with the masters men. If I enter my best time of 1:05.5 in the 100 fly for example, that's pretty quick. I will be with girls who can hit 1:02s and 1:03s. . .
I'm leaning towards just going for it and if I can't handle the pressure then at least I know I tried my best.
As always, any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
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Fudge a little. I's what I did at Sr. State back in December. These kids put in their personal best times. But they are still improving at a tremendous rate year-over-year.
I put in my best "in-season" time as I usually do in masters meets, about one to two seconds per 100 slower than my best.
At the end of the day, the kids were improving their best times a ton year-over-year while I was improving a little.
But since I used my best in-season time for seeding and they used their PBs, we improved our seed times at a similar rate.
This made for great racing in my heats, which was what I was after.
Fudge a little. I's what I did at Sr. State back in December. These kids put in their personal best times. But they are still improving at a tremendous rate year-over-year.
I put in my best "in-season" time as I usually do in masters meets, about one to two seconds per 100 slower than my best.
At the end of the day, the kids were improving their best times a ton year-over-year while I was improving a little.
But since I used my best in-season time for seeding and they used their PBs, we improved our seed times at a similar rate.
This made for great racing in my heats, which was what I was after.
