I was wondering if being tall gives you an advantage in swimming because alot of the olympic male swimmers today are over 6 feet.
What do you guys think?
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Had to laugh at your description of the little Hercules. I swim with a fellow who is a foot taller then me and I am nipping at his heels. Now he is 51 and I am 42, so neither of us are young pups. Yes he gets me at the turns because of height, but I play your game of good streamline and actully catch him before I break the surface because his streamline is not as good. Alas, he then buts his long stroke into play and I then have to catch him at the next turn as well.
I am getting closer, instead of lapping me on the 400 IM, he only beat me by 5 seconds, and on the 500 free the differential is only 15 seconds instead of minutes like it used to be. Yep, I am the pup yapping at his heels!
Had to laugh at your description of the little Hercules. I swim with a fellow who is a foot taller then me and I am nipping at his heels. Now he is 51 and I am 42, so neither of us are young pups. Yes he gets me at the turns because of height, but I play your game of good streamline and actully catch him before I break the surface because his streamline is not as good. Alas, he then buts his long stroke into play and I then have to catch him at the next turn as well.
I am getting closer, instead of lapping me on the 400 IM, he only beat me by 5 seconds, and on the 500 free the differential is only 15 seconds instead of minutes like it used to be. Yep, I am the pup yapping at his heels!
