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!
It is too bad that Jimmy Stewart has passed away, because I think he would have been a fantastic choice for the role of CreamPuff in the Frank Capra movie, "From the Soggy Ashes: The Kristina Ulveling Story."
As a long time Ulvelingologist, I must say that this thread is a treasure trove of psychiatric insight into the underpinnings of what some in the K.U. literature have termed "drive" while others prefer to call traditional "obsessionality."
Regardless of terminology, we all wish you luck in your attempts to redo the past, with a more emotionally emancipating conclusion.
As far as sandbagging goes, as long as you don't Hiddlebiddle your times, I think you will be safe from reproach. However, as your recent race against Eva Braun showed, perhaps your greatest strength as a swimmer is your indominability. I would recommend the first option in your poll, then let your inner Terminator do what it does best: crush your enemies, see them lying before you, and hearing der lamentations of dere vomen.
It is too bad that Jimmy Stewart has passed away, because I think he would have been a fantastic choice for the role of CreamPuff in the Frank Capra movie, "From the Soggy Ashes: The Kristina Ulveling Story."
As a long time Ulvelingologist, I must say that this thread is a treasure trove of psychiatric insight into the underpinnings of what some in the K.U. literature have termed "drive" while others prefer to call traditional "obsessionality."
Regardless of terminology, we all wish you luck in your attempts to redo the past, with a more emotionally emancipating conclusion.
As far as sandbagging goes, as long as you don't Hiddlebiddle your times, I think you will be safe from reproach. However, as your recent race against Eva Braun showed, perhaps your greatest strength as a swimmer is your indominability. I would recommend the first option in your poll, then let your inner Terminator do what it does best: crush your enemies, see them lying before you, and hearing der lamentations of dere vomen.
