Its mostly hypothetical - I was just psyching myself out by looking at the national sheets where I'm not entered. However in the past, if 2 events I want to swim end up back to back, I have had to choose.
What's the dilemma? The 200 fly at Auburn is between the 200 MR, which is no big deal you only have to swim a 50, and the 100 back, which I am pretty sure, based on your posts, you don't intend to swim.
As far as satisfaction goes....I expect to get a LOT of satisfaction completing the 200 fly but am likely to be really slow, so getting, say a 6th place would seem like "cheating", whereas still being able to pull off a fast-for-me 50 fly feels great until I look at the long list of sprinters faster than me. Just wondering how the rest of you think.....
Swimming slow and placing 6th isn't cheating, it just depends on who shows up. You can't control that. (... well I suppose you could try bodily harm, but that *would* be cheating.) Swimming a pr isn't any less of an accomplishment if you get smoked by the rest of the field. I'd say 6th in one of your weak events against a slow field and a pr in a fast field are both satisfying, each in a different way. Try for both I say.
I like the idea of top 10 in everything once, but I'd need to live a long long time to get top 10 in a 50!
I'd like to start with TT in *something* once, and take it from there.
Its mostly hypothetical - I was just psyching myself out by looking at the national sheets where I'm not entered. However in the past, if 2 events I want to swim end up back to back, I have had to choose.
What's the dilemma? The 200 fly at Auburn is between the 200 MR, which is no big deal you only have to swim a 50, and the 100 back, which I am pretty sure, based on your posts, you don't intend to swim.
As far as satisfaction goes....I expect to get a LOT of satisfaction completing the 200 fly but am likely to be really slow, so getting, say a 6th place would seem like "cheating", whereas still being able to pull off a fast-for-me 50 fly feels great until I look at the long list of sprinters faster than me. Just wondering how the rest of you think.....
Swimming slow and placing 6th isn't cheating, it just depends on who shows up. You can't control that. (... well I suppose you could try bodily harm, but that *would* be cheating.) Swimming a pr isn't any less of an accomplishment if you get smoked by the rest of the field. I'd say 6th in one of your weak events against a slow field and a pr in a fast field are both satisfying, each in a different way. Try for both I say.
I like the idea of top 10 in everything once, but I'd need to live a long long time to get top 10 in a 50!
I'd like to start with TT in *something* once, and take it from there.
