I'm pretty much only a freestyle/crawl stroke swimmer. I'll do lots of interval sets in the pool, but only swim very little of the other strokes. Often I'll just throw in an IM here and there just to break up the monotony. But I'm by no means proficient at those other strokes. Yesterday, as I rested after doing a 400 IM, the woman in the lane next to me (obviously an experienced swimmer) came to a stop and asks "Were you just swimming butterfly?" I told her I was and she responded "Hmm, ya don't see people swimming butterfly much anymore."
Dan
Wait, not sure what an increase in triathlon participation has to do with swimmers at the pool.
If you quadruple the number of triathletes (no butterfly) while the number of pool swimmers (some butterfly) stays constant, the fraction of total people swimming butterfly goes down.
At my pool, I would say way more than half the people are fitness swimmers (no butterfly), and way more than half the people training for some event are triathletes (no butterfly). Of the pool swimmers, some fraction swim fly some fraction of the time. So at my pool, fly is pretty rare.
Wait, not sure what an increase in triathlon participation has to do with swimmers at the pool.
If you quadruple the number of triathletes (no butterfly) while the number of pool swimmers (some butterfly) stays constant, the fraction of total people swimming butterfly goes down.
At my pool, I would say way more than half the people are fitness swimmers (no butterfly), and way more than half the people training for some event are triathletes (no butterfly). Of the pool swimmers, some fraction swim fly some fraction of the time. So at my pool, fly is pretty rare.
