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.:)
Just saw this old thread on sandbagging, kind of interesting to read and compare to this one:
Sandbagging? TP + Banana Thread - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
Two things stuck out (just having fun):
Fort saying that "I think sandbagging is very prevalent and many masters swimmers do it" which seems a little different from her current stance. (Though generally her posts in that thread are pretty consistent, though less heated, with posts in this thread.)
And Kirk's defense of sandbagging ("Sandbagging in swimming is small potatoes, really") which is different than this thread.
In the electronic ether, nothing disappears!!
More seriously, the other thread adds another dimension ("practice sandbagging") and has some good posts by meet director extraordinaire Rick Osterberg.
Just saw this old thread on sandbagging, kind of interesting to read and compare to this one:
Sandbagging? TP + Banana Thread - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
Two things stuck out (just having fun):
Fort saying that "I think sandbagging is very prevalent and many masters swimmers do it" which seems a little different from her current stance. (Though generally her posts in that thread are pretty consistent, though less heated, with posts in this thread.)
And Kirk's defense of sandbagging ("Sandbagging in swimming is small potatoes, really") which is different than this thread.
In the electronic ether, nothing disappears!!
More seriously, the other thread adds another dimension ("practice sandbagging") and has some good posts by meet director extraordinaire Rick Osterberg.
