I have noticed on a few different occasions where people have mentioned the apparent "speed" of the pool they swim in.
anyone want to enlighten a clueless person as to what this means? ;)
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Drafting is a function of the water movement below the surface, not what's happening at the surface (like wakes and troughs.) In essence, drafting is sort of like swimming down stream. There is a flow of water created by the swimmer in front of you (and created by you as well, if someone is behind you to benefit from it.) The flow essentially follows the swimmer. If you catch that flow, you are pulled along in the current, and you swim "downstream" (if you are swimming in the same direction.)
I suppose that if you were swimming in the opposite direction of a long line of swimmers, and if you moved close enough to the line of swimmers, it would probably be like swimming upstream. I suppose, therefore, that you might get this effect in a crowded circle-swim lane.
Drafting is a function of the water movement below the surface, not what's happening at the surface (like wakes and troughs.) In essence, drafting is sort of like swimming down stream. There is a flow of water created by the swimmer in front of you (and created by you as well, if someone is behind you to benefit from it.) The flow essentially follows the swimmer. If you catch that flow, you are pulled along in the current, and you swim "downstream" (if you are swimming in the same direction.)
I suppose that if you were swimming in the opposite direction of a long line of swimmers, and if you moved close enough to the line of swimmers, it would probably be like swimming upstream. I suppose, therefore, that you might get this effect in a crowded circle-swim lane.
