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.:)
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The meets that seed everybody together don't do this just to irritate women who don't like to swim against men
Wait a minute, let's not forget the plight of the young men who are tired of getting chicked by the older, better looking and FASTER women out there. chowmi, Medicine Woman, Eney Jones and Laura Glass have all beat me in person and a couple have even told me good swims! Way to pat me on the head and shoo me off to the corner to cry.
Ok, Laura isn't older than me, just faster in 3 out of 4 strokes and thus age shouldn't be a factor.
The Sandbagging rule needs to be extended to chicking. Fast chicks get lead weights tied around their legs, they have to enter with their best shaved and tapered times from college and swim slower than me. Subrule A shall stipulate that one Kurt Dickson is required to checkin in person before the early warm up and swim the final heat of the last event of the day is. Subrule B shall stipulate that one The Fortress will be required to swim between pwolf and fmracing in lane 8 until such time that bigger faster swimmers can be found as replacements. That should solve all the complaints about special enforcement.
Whose on the rules committee? I need to write a letter.
The meets that seed everybody together don't do this just to irritate women who don't like to swim against men
Wait a minute, let's not forget the plight of the young men who are tired of getting chicked by the older, better looking and FASTER women out there. chowmi, Medicine Woman, Eney Jones and Laura Glass have all beat me in person and a couple have even told me good swims! Way to pat me on the head and shoo me off to the corner to cry.
Ok, Laura isn't older than me, just faster in 3 out of 4 strokes and thus age shouldn't be a factor.
The Sandbagging rule needs to be extended to chicking. Fast chicks get lead weights tied around their legs, they have to enter with their best shaved and tapered times from college and swim slower than me. Subrule A shall stipulate that one Kurt Dickson is required to checkin in person before the early warm up and swim the final heat of the last event of the day is. Subrule B shall stipulate that one The Fortress will be required to swim between pwolf and fmracing in lane 8 until such time that bigger faster swimmers can be found as replacements. That should solve all the complaints about special enforcement.
Whose on the rules committee? I need to write a letter.
