Field instrument · 04 · From: The Price of Belonging

What the Scoreboard Does Not Show

An honest audit of the inputs behind a swim time. Not to apologize for the swim. To remember what carried it.

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Youth swimming results may include minors. This tool keeps your inputs in your browser. Public-safe output is the default for the share card. Review every output before sharing. The swim may be public. The child is not public property.

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The visible result (top of the scoreboard)
Pool access and coaching
Equipment
Meet travel and family hours
Recovery, nutrition, opportunity cost
Output mode

Example audit

A 1:08.42 in the 100 LCM freestyle on the scoreboard. Underneath: nine pool hours per week, six on-deck coaching hours, a current-model tech suit purchased two weeks before the meet, two regional travel meets, fourteen family hours per week, physio access, and several missed weekend events. None of this appears on the heat sheet. All of it carried the swim.

Next steps

This reading is one moment in a longer conversation. Read the essay this tool comes from, namely The Price of Belonging. Try the tool again next week with the same questions and see how the reading shifts.

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