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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Pretty much.
She knows me and my background, so she probably knows why I'm saying this.
Definitely. Would not expect a different answer from an Alex B. pupil!
So what am I afraid of? My swimming career in a nutshell is your standard sad tale. Got Junior National cuts (pretty easily - I never liked to train as a kid) right at 15 years old in 100 fly. I had no idea what one was supposed to do after that (had no other goals). At that point in time, JR's were about as high as anyone went on the small team I swam for. Went to JR's, was surrounded by fantastically trained athletes from your team no less, and bombed (didn't even make the cut at the meet.) Was pretty much done with the sport from then on until age 30. Now I'm putting myself into a heat in which the swimmers are all faster than my best time as a kid - exciting and terrifying at the same time. But I gotta agree. What on earth do I have to lose? Perhaps I can redeem myself 21 years later.
CreamPuff,
What Lump is tryin to say... "Don't be a Geek. Man-up, enter your fastest time and race"
Pretty much.
She knows me and my background, so she probably knows why I'm saying this.
Jim! My husband is on to our online relationship. In reading your latest post below, he asked me what I was giggling at this AM. I let him know that, "It's that Jim Thornton guy again." :rofl: But don't you worry, hubby is an artist/ crazy diretor and not a body builder.
I will not hiddlebiddle. What a term. Today's he$$ fly practice almost made me cry. Not very terminator-like.
That was a fun race to watch, thank you for posting the link Jim. You need to enter your fastest times Creampuff. Swimming with those young girls will push you to swim even faster times.
