T minus 11 days until I race the long distance pentathlon (200 LCM back, 200 LCM free, 200 LCM ***, 200 LCM fly, and 400 LCM IM) against an unknown challenger. I have it on good authority that this mystery swimmer will be wearing a Mexican wrestling mask and will not remove it between events. There are also unsubstantiated rumors that this person uses performance enhancing carbohydrates and caffeine, and may have even considered sandbagging once before chickening out. I'm told that our gridge hinges upon our total pentathlon time, but the stakes of this gridge have not yet been revealed even to me. Who is this enigmatic maverick, and why has he never been photographed with Gotham's caped crusader Bat Guy?
With all the sandbagging/split request :blah: stuff going on lately, I thought I would join the show during the pentathalon meet. I'm thinking about split requesting my 100 Back in the 200 Back event. It's my last/only shot at the 100 Back LMSC record, and the Corvallis pool is indoor which is a big YIPPIE! for backstroke events.
Thing is, I'm going to sprint like crazy for the 100, finish legal, old school turn and keep going so as to not damage the total time too much for the pentathalon gridge. Who knows...I'm probably just shooting myself in the foot attempting this, but why not try???
With all the sandbagging/split request :blah: stuff going on lately, I thought I would join the show during the pentathalon meet. I'm thinking about split requesting my 100 Back in the 200 Back event. It's my last/only shot at the 100 Back LMSC record, and the Corvallis pool is indoor which is a big YIPPIE! for backstroke events.
Thing is, I'm going to sprint like crazy for the 100, finish legal, old school turn and keep going so as to not damage the total time too much for the pentathalon gridge. Who knows...I'm probably just shooting myself in the foot attempting this, but why not try???
