I'm not a new masters swimmer nor am I new to meets, but am new to the 400 IM. Truthfully, I'm a little concerned about my ability to make it through the event legally (well, I'm really mainly afraid of the 4th 25). I'm scheduled to swim the 400 IM at a meet this weekend (Saturday). There are twenty people entered, it's a 10 lane pool, and as luck would have it I'm seeded 11th. If only one person above me scratches, I'll be in a heat where the fastest person is seeded 1:40 faster than I am, and the slowest person (besides me) is still seeded 40 seconds faster than I am. My seed time is MUCH closer to the people seeded right behind me, and I think I seeded myself as accurately as I could.
So... I am extremely anxious about swimming in this heat, as I was already anxious about swimming the 400 IM. Do I scratch to save myself the humiliation and to save some energy for Sunday's events? Or do I get lapped at least twice by the leaders, once by the next slowest person, and tick everyone off for holding up the meet? I'm already swimming the 1000 earlier in the session, and the 400 IM will be my 4th event of the day. I really have mixed feelings about this.
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Thanks for all of your replies and encouragement. Deep down I think I do want to swim it, but being the first time I'm swimming it and due to the fact that I will likely be out of my league in my heat, that's why I'm feeling so anxious about it. That, and it's really the first event I've ever swum that it's not guaranteed that I'll be able to finish. Obviously I have never done the 200 (or even the 100) fly. Also, I seeded myself a bit too fast at the last meet I did, not taking into account the lack of a taper and no magic suit. I spent most of my events just trying to stay within a respectable distance of the swimmers in my heat, and I obviously have lingering issues from that. :blush:
I'll report back the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hopefully it will be mostly the first mentioned.
Thanks for all of your replies and encouragement. Deep down I think I do want to swim it, but being the first time I'm swimming it and due to the fact that I will likely be out of my league in my heat, that's why I'm feeling so anxious about it. That, and it's really the first event I've ever swum that it's not guaranteed that I'll be able to finish. Obviously I have never done the 200 (or even the 100) fly. Also, I seeded myself a bit too fast at the last meet I did, not taking into account the lack of a taper and no magic suit. I spent most of my events just trying to stay within a respectable distance of the swimmers in my heat, and I obviously have lingering issues from that. :blush:
I'll report back the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hopefully it will be mostly the first mentioned.
