This may be opening a can of worms here, but I'm having an argument with someone in my group. If someone is drafting off of you in a pool set (like 4x200 SCY), does it hurt your effort? Does the lead swimmer have to work harder or experience some other negative benefit?
I've read a bit about aerodynamics and it would seem that in car racing, the lead car actually gets a positive benefit, but I'm not sure if that's true in swimming.
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In an open water swim I loved to swim between swimmers. I once drafted between Horatio Iglesias and Herman Willimese (Both of these swimmers are in the Hall of fame) for twenty miles down the Saguenay River. With the current and drafting that twenty miles took two hours. I was fresh as a daisy for the next eight miles that took 5 hours against an outgoing 20 foot tide in the Bai de Ha HA.
In an open water swim I loved to swim between swimmers. I once drafted between Horatio Iglesias and Herman Willimese (Both of these swimmers are in the Hall of fame) for twenty miles down the Saguenay River. With the current and drafting that twenty miles took two hours. I was fresh as a daisy for the next eight miles that took 5 hours against an outgoing 20 foot tide in the Bai de Ha HA.
