Lately I've not been making friends.
I am hitting people during fly. Sometimes it is from another lane since I recover my right arm over the lane line, and sometimes it is a lane mate. I have a 76" reach so I am roughly as wide as a lane.
I try to look and f I see someone I can sometimes do an alligator arm recovery, but this does not always work. People come up fast and you can't always get out of the way.
Is there a trick to this, or is hitting part of the deal?
Sometimes I'll lead so I can at least do a 25 without an issue, but anything over a 25 and I am now paranoid.
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just barrell down the lane full blast, make a FIST & SMACK them HARD, thus teaching them not to swim in your lane or beside your lane when you're swimming fly That, I was too politically polite to state this.
Where I train, lanes are identified by swimmer's levels. The 2 middle lanes are for fast swimmers.
Anyway, at one point, this is the state of mind I am in whilst performing key fly sets. I just go hard and try not to hurt myself in smacking them but I don't care about it all that much.
When running, you can twist an ankle, when riding in paceline, you can get into massive riders crashes (domino effect). In the pool you can get smacked by fly swimmers. That's life, at least in the fast lanes. Period.
just barrell down the lane full blast, make a FIST & SMACK them HARD, thus teaching them not to swim in your lane or beside your lane when you're swimming fly That, I was too politically polite to state this.
Where I train, lanes are identified by swimmer's levels. The 2 middle lanes are for fast swimmers.
Anyway, at one point, this is the state of mind I am in whilst performing key fly sets. I just go hard and try not to hurt myself in smacking them but I don't care about it all that much.
When running, you can twist an ankle, when riding in paceline, you can get into massive riders crashes (domino effect). In the pool you can get smacked by fly swimmers. That's life, at least in the fast lanes. Period.
