Alright, guys, I got a meet coming up and I need some advice
Former Member
It's going to be June 4th and 5th in Pleasanton, CA.
I'll be doing five events a day for a total of ten. Last February, I did eight events at a meet and I decided I wanted to top that when I registered for this meet.
Now, with the meet fast approaching, I had been considering dropping some events ahead of time and getting refunds. Then I was informed I couldn't do that. Uh oh.
The circumstances are... I wasn't in the pool for two weeks up to last Friday. Due to a combination of having been sick three weeks ago, accumulating bad decisions, and having to study for finals (which are now finally over, thank every deity that was ever believed in), I missed a whole lotta swim time. Looking back on it, I realize now it was a big, big mistake, although I wonder how I would've done on finals. And whether I could've balanced the two, school and pool. That might've been risker in regards to my grades, though... ah, well. Anyway, I digress too much...
My events, in order:
day 1:
200 IM
200 free
100 back
400 free (first time)
100 free
day 2:
400 IM (first time)
100 ***
200 back
100 fly
50 free
You can probably tell which of the events I wanted to refund. I suppose I could always scratch, but I don't really want to. I did enough of that at the last meet when I was sick. I want to take this thing head-on.
So, I would highly appreciate it if you could all offer me maybe one short sentence or even a single word of advice about each of the events (or just some specific ones).
Thanks in advance.
My suggestion would be to pick 3, maybe 4 races to focus on, and use the others for warm-up/keeping loose. The only problem with that is if you don't swim the exact time you seeded, you may be accused of sandbagging/anti-sandbagging :D But seriously, I'd pick just a few races to do well on, and if you're determined to swim what you signed up for, do a moderate effort on the rest.
Good luck! I can't imagine swimming more that 200-250m in any given meet anyway, but that's because I'm a wussy sprinter :banana:
My suggestion would be to pick 3, maybe 4 races to focus on, and use the others for warm-up/keeping loose. The only problem with that is if you don't swim the exact time you seeded, you may be accused of sandbagging/anti-sandbagging :D But seriously, I'd pick just a few races to do well on, and if you're determined to swim what you signed up for, do a moderate effort on the rest.
Good luck! I can't imagine swimming more that 200-250m in any given meet anyway, but that's because I'm a wussy sprinter :banana: