Why to race?

Neat article -- www.nytimes.com/.../20best.html -- and something I imagine we've all experienced as competitors -- racing makes us faster. I guess the trick is to get seeded next to someone who you don't believe is actually too much faster than you, but who has strategically sandbagged their time by about 2%.
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  • I'm apparently the only one who can't figure out how to write upside down. ¿əlƃooƃ əsn noʎ uɐɔ Personally, I find it even more annoying than others find the whole blue font thing...or emoticons... :) The article was interesting. I wonder how it fits in with coaches who are notoriously "fast" in their hand timing of swimmers?
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  • I'm apparently the only one who can't figure out how to write upside down. ¿əlƃooƃ əsn noʎ uɐɔ Personally, I find it even more annoying than others find the whole blue font thing...or emoticons... :) The article was interesting. I wonder how it fits in with coaches who are notoriously "fast" in their hand timing of swimmers?
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