i swim in the medium to slower lanes at a very competitive masters team workouts in san diego, and am usually asked to slide down to slower lanes when the equal ability swimmers (vs triathletes) show up.
the funny thing is most of these swimmers use a pull bouy or fins for the WHOLE workout. i think it's a ego thing in la-la land.
i would like to swim with people who can push me harder, instead of down in the last slowest lane. should i just chalk it up to normal swimmers protocal? or find another team? :confused:
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That's one way of dealing with the over-inflated egos who swim in a specific (public swims, not team or Masters) lane only because this lane is marked as the fast lane (even though the other lanes—to flatter egos, I guess— are medium fast and medium. There's no slow lane. The trick when overtaking them is cutting in in front of them (and even if you're really only doing arm pulls) flutter-kick furiously right under their nose (literally). When this is repeated a few times, most of them get the message and move down.
There's no science to it really. Slower boy was not hugging the lane line and was swimming almost in the middle of the lane. Add to that two big boys with fins coming the other direction. And there I am right in the middle passing as the part of the set was *fast* so I was not planning on slowing down. I avoided a collision by some stroke of luck. Anyway, great OW practice. The slower swimmer got out of the lane right after that.
That's one way of dealing with the over-inflated egos who swim in a specific (public swims, not team or Masters) lane only because this lane is marked as the fast lane (even though the other lanes—to flatter egos, I guess— are medium fast and medium. There's no slow lane. The trick when overtaking them is cutting in in front of them (and even if you're really only doing arm pulls) flutter-kick furiously right under their nose (literally). When this is repeated a few times, most of them get the message and move down.
There's no science to it really. Slower boy was not hugging the lane line and was swimming almost in the middle of the lane. Add to that two big boys with fins coming the other direction. And there I am right in the middle passing as the part of the set was *fast* so I was not planning on slowing down. I avoided a collision by some stroke of luck. Anyway, great OW practice. The slower swimmer got out of the lane right after that.
