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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How do I know what seed times to put down for Auburn (and whether I really qualify for a 4th event*), when physical issues make predicting my times nearly impossible?
*I qualified in the 50yd breaststroke, last September, so technically I can convert that time and qualify for Auburn. But, I
have been anywhere from 2-3+ seconds off since! :badday:
Thanks, in advance, for any polite feedback any of you can offer. Hopefully, by posting on this thread, your responses will provide guidance to other swimmers who may be feeling like they are in the same boat (uhhhh, POOL.).
I *think* I read somewhere that your QTs must have been done in the last 2 years, and they were, so you should feel able/entitled to enter a 4th event if you so wish.
Although I'm not going to Auburn this year, I'm hoping to make enough NQTs to pick any 6 events if I do get to nationals next year. Right now my 100 free is just so close that if I desperately wanted to enter it along with 3 other events without NQTs, I would enter the NQT as my seed time.:afraid:
Who said that?
It wasn't me:bolt:
How do I know what seed times to put down for Auburn (and whether I really qualify for a 4th event*), when physical issues make predicting my times nearly impossible?
*I qualified in the 50yd breaststroke, last September, so technically I can convert that time and qualify for Auburn. But, I
have been anywhere from 2-3+ seconds off since! :badday:
Thanks, in advance, for any polite feedback any of you can offer. Hopefully, by posting on this thread, your responses will provide guidance to other swimmers who may be feeling like they are in the same boat (uhhhh, POOL.).
I *think* I read somewhere that your QTs must have been done in the last 2 years, and they were, so you should feel able/entitled to enter a 4th event if you so wish.
Although I'm not going to Auburn this year, I'm hoping to make enough NQTs to pick any 6 events if I do get to nationals next year. Right now my 100 free is just so close that if I desperately wanted to enter it along with 3 other events without NQTs, I would enter the NQT as my seed time.:afraid:
Who said that?
It wasn't me:bolt:
