Are Triathletes worth the dues they pay toward Masters Swimming?
I say we force all Triathletes to spend one day a week in the sprint lane, one day a week doing stroke (i.e. IM) work, and then make them focus on their starts and turns.
This invasion needs to be controlled.... :-)
John Smith
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Fort:
I agree. For TRIs the distances should be set closer to one third of the expected finish time. For example: an Ironman is run (by pros) ~12 hours. So the distances should be for what an average athlete would do. That's around 80 miles on the bike, still 26.2 miles for the run and a 6.5 miles swim. In a typical sprint (even for me): its 10 minutes in the water, 45 minutes on the bike, and 20 minutes for the run (assuming .3 mile/13 miles/ 3.1 miles) Better would be .9 mile/10 miles/6.2 miles.
Back home in Florida, I saw individuals doing all four stroke at the beach. There's no reason you can't have OW IMs. You just need a race track. The Strangeman Du is: 400M OW swim, 2 mile run (beach), 400m OW swim, and a 2 mile run to the finish. No reason you couldn't do something like this and specify the stroke.
Fort:
I agree. For TRIs the distances should be set closer to one third of the expected finish time. For example: an Ironman is run (by pros) ~12 hours. So the distances should be for what an average athlete would do. That's around 80 miles on the bike, still 26.2 miles for the run and a 6.5 miles swim. In a typical sprint (even for me): its 10 minutes in the water, 45 minutes on the bike, and 20 minutes for the run (assuming .3 mile/13 miles/ 3.1 miles) Better would be .9 mile/10 miles/6.2 miles.
Back home in Florida, I saw individuals doing all four stroke at the beach. There's no reason you can't have OW IMs. You just need a race track. The Strangeman Du is: 400M OW swim, 2 mile run (beach), 400m OW swim, and a 2 mile run to the finish. No reason you couldn't do something like this and specify the stroke.
