The anti-sandbag law:
"if a swimmer enters an event with a time significantly slower or faster than that swimmer's recorded time in the past two years, the meet director may, after a discussion with the swimmer, change the seeded time to a realistic time" (104.5.5.A(10)).
Concerning my Auburn nationals entry, I confess, when faced with a 7 hour 2 stop flight and 3:45 nonstop at an earlier time, I did what any warm-blooded middle-aged American swimmer with low self-esteem would do--sandbag my entry so I could catch the earlier flight, thus diminishing the possible time spent sitting next to a 400 pound Alabama slammer with sleep apnea wearing nothing but overalls and body odor. Of course, I was caught in my bold fabrication and my time was "fixed."
USMS seems to have an identity problem. Are we hard core with rigid qualifying times? It would seem not as 2 of my not-so-speedy family members were allowed to swim four events last year in Puerto Rico. If we are not hard core, why does anybody care that I sandbag? More to the point, why can one person enter a crappy time and another cannot? Just wondering.:)
IIt's easy to downplay the little things. But little things sometimes matter. Especially for sprinters. But since you D and mid-D types are so much more emotionally stable, you can have all the outside lanes you want!
Well, little things matter to everyone. All I do is train the little things because I sure don't want to repeat a little thing 9 thousand times in a long race.
I hate the outside lanes but that's part of the deal with racing. No need to dwell on it. You can't put the fix in on every race.
IIt's easy to downplay the little things. But little things sometimes matter. Especially for sprinters. But since you D and mid-D types are so much more emotionally stable, you can have all the outside lanes you want!
Well, little things matter to everyone. All I do is train the little things because I sure don't want to repeat a little thing 9 thousand times in a long race.
I hate the outside lanes but that's part of the deal with racing. No need to dwell on it. You can't put the fix in on every race.
