I am a triathlete who swims, not fast. Recently I experienced more than a few times that slower pool swimmers than me were passing me in OW practices (all including myself wearing wetsuit). I swim relatively straight, though I may tend to lift my head too much for sighting. Anyway they are obviously getting a larger benefit of wearing a wetsuit. Since most of the tri races around here allow you to wear a wetsuit, what matters is the speed with one. Does this tell you what I need to work on?? I know my body position improved during the last few years (of course still lots to learn) - I don't feel a huge difference in my lower body position with a wetsuit on as I used to. So I thought my stroke particually catch/pull phase was weak and started using more pull buoy while concentrating on catch/pull. Am I in the right direction?
SMR -
One thing I really like about swimming Long Course and open water is that the distance allows for me to get in the groove of my stroke, and then keep going. If you're swimming Short Course yards or meters, you almost never get a chance to reach that groove point, as you're inturrupted to make a turn.
My guess is that these slower pool swimmers are like me, and they are able to find their groove and then set the cruise control.
If you don't swim LCM or OW that often, I recommend you get in a LCM pool and work on finding that groove and the associated pace. Also, if you have a center-mount snorkel, try doing a little groove discovery with the snorkel, and then repeat without.
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SMR -
One thing I really like about swimming Long Course and open water is that the distance allows for me to get in the groove of my stroke, and then keep going. If you're swimming Short Course yards or meters, you almost never get a chance to reach that groove point, as you're inturrupted to make a turn.
My guess is that these slower pool swimmers are like me, and they are able to find their groove and then set the cruise control.
If you don't swim LCM or OW that often, I recommend you get in a LCM pool and work on finding that groove and the associated pace. Also, if you have a center-mount snorkel, try doing a little groove discovery with the snorkel, and then repeat without.
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