The best place to draft is directly behind a swimmer,
which you can do in practice and open water swims.
If you do this often in practice
you're likely to irritate who ever swims in front of you.
I think your drawing might be more handy if it were drawn from up above the swimmers.
In big prelim / final type meets in the 50 Free like NCAA's, swimmers often post their best times in the Prelims when there is less turbulence in the pool and less pressure on the race.
Many meets shuffle the final 3 prelim heats so,
the fastest swimmer is in heat 3 lane 4
the second fastest in heat 2 lane 4
the third in heat 1 lane 4
the fourth in heat 3 lane 5 and so on
in the 50 finals, in a 25 yard or meter pool, there's pressure to win combined with the turbulence from the 8 fastest swimmers all in the same pool at once. The swimmers have to turn.
Sprinters go a little deeper and stay under a little longer off the turn to avoid swimming into that wave that follows the swimmers.
Ande
The best place to draft is directly behind a swimmer,
which you can do in practice and open water swims.
If you do this often in practice
you're likely to irritate who ever swims in front of you.
I think your drawing might be more handy if it were drawn from up above the swimmers.
In big prelim / final type meets in the 50 Free like NCAA's, swimmers often post their best times in the Prelims when there is less turbulence in the pool and less pressure on the race.
Many meets shuffle the final 3 prelim heats so,
the fastest swimmer is in heat 3 lane 4
the second fastest in heat 2 lane 4
the third in heat 1 lane 4
the fourth in heat 3 lane 5 and so on
in the 50 finals, in a 25 yard or meter pool, there's pressure to win combined with the turbulence from the 8 fastest swimmers all in the same pool at once. The swimmers have to turn.
Sprinters go a little deeper and stay under a little longer off the turn to avoid swimming into that wave that follows the swimmers.
Ande
