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.:)
I was in the shallow end in the fastest heat between 2 muscley guys in the 50 back last time. What more do you want? I think that is where you now belong in the backstroke events!
I love the meet because it is the only meet in the known universe that doesn't start until 2:00 pm!
At larger meets, I don't see anything wrong with putting top age group seeds in the non-gutter lanes. But at small meets, there aren't enough entries in each age group for this to work. I'm often the only swimmer in my age group in my events. (I don't do many 50's...:)) In the 100 SCM breaststroke I described earlier in the thread, I would have been pleased to be in lane 6 of the fastest heat rather than lane 3 of the preceding heat.
Oh BTW here's a meet that starts even later: www.swimphone.com/.../event_order.cfm
I was in the shallow end in the fastest heat between 2 muscley guys in the 50 back last time. What more do you want? I think that is where you now belong in the backstroke events!
I love the meet because it is the only meet in the known universe that doesn't start until 2:00 pm!
At larger meets, I don't see anything wrong with putting top age group seeds in the non-gutter lanes. But at small meets, there aren't enough entries in each age group for this to work. I'm often the only swimmer in my age group in my events. (I don't do many 50's...:)) In the 100 SCM breaststroke I described earlier in the thread, I would have been pleased to be in lane 6 of the fastest heat rather than lane 3 of the preceding heat.
Oh BTW here's a meet that starts even later: www.swimphone.com/.../event_order.cfm
