Drafting

Originally posted by Guvnah But George, some of your posts describe outright conversations with other competitors. When you guys do these marathons, do you actually stop to chat from time to time? Do you stop and rest after x-many hours? Stop when you encounter another swimmer? I'd really like to hear more. This is an aspect of swimming I have not tried, and I am finding it fascinating. No rests except the Abou Heif thing happened during a 24 hour Team swim, two swimmers per team, swum relay style. Abou was teamed up with another swimmer and we were waiting for our team mates to touch the raft for us to swim our turns around the third of a mile course. My team mate was having dificulties and we had no chance to win and Abou asked while we were waiting if he could draft off me, I said yes. The shark incident happened at the start of a race as we left Narraganset harbour to swim to Block Island, as we cleared the breakwall the shark startled us and Billy Barton, ReJeane Lacoursiere and I stopped momentarilly. I asked Billy if that was a shark and he said "yes". He went his way, Johnny went the other way and the shark followed me. It does not take long to tell someone to get away from you. George www.swimdownhill.com

Originally posted by Guvnah But George, some of your posts describe outright conversations with other competitors. When you guys do these marathons, do you actually stop to chat from time to time? Do you stop and rest after x-many hours? Stop when you encounter another swimmer? I'd really like to hear more. This is an aspect of swimming I have not tried, and I am finding it fascinating. No rests except the Abou Heif thing happened during a 24 hour Team swim, two swimmers per team, swum relay style. Abou was teamed up with another swimmer and we were waiting for our team mates to touch the raft for us to swim our turns around the third of a mile course. My team mate was having dificulties and we had no chance to win and Abou asked while we were waiting if he could draft off me, I said yes. The shark incident happened at the start of a race as we left Narraganset harbour to swim to Block Island, as we cleared the breakwall the shark startled us and Billy Barton, ReJeane Lacoursiere and I stopped momentarilly. I asked Billy if that was a shark and he said "yes". He went his way, Johnny went the other way and the shark followed me. It does not take long to tell someone to get away from you. George www.swimdownhill.com