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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I usually count on a 36+ for LCM 50 ***, but the computer popped up with 38.02, so that's what I entered.
Scott,
The USMS nationals meet entry system looks for your times in a given event that have been swum within the last two years.
In the case of your LCM 50 ***, there is only one time in the database that was swum within the last two years. That time is a 38.02, swim on July 12, 2009, at a meet in St. Pete.
There are two other times for you for the LCM 50 ***, but they are much older (a 36.14 from the 2004 LC Nationals, and a 37.22 from the 2007 Bumpy Jones meet).
You can view all of your times in the database by performing these steps:
1) Go to www.usms.org
2) Mouse over the blue "Competition" tab across the top
3) Select "Individual Results" from the pull-down menu
4) Enter your last name into the search box; click "Start Search"
I usually count on a 36+ for LCM 50 ***, but the computer popped up with 38.02, so that's what I entered.
Scott,
The USMS nationals meet entry system looks for your times in a given event that have been swum within the last two years.
In the case of your LCM 50 ***, there is only one time in the database that was swum within the last two years. That time is a 38.02, swim on July 12, 2009, at a meet in St. Pete.
There are two other times for you for the LCM 50 ***, but they are much older (a 36.14 from the 2004 LC Nationals, and a 37.22 from the 2007 Bumpy Jones meet).
You can view all of your times in the database by performing these steps:
1) Go to www.usms.org
2) Mouse over the blue "Competition" tab across the top
3) Select "Individual Results" from the pull-down menu
4) Enter your last name into the search box; click "Start Search"
