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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* Maintain lane awareness of who else is in the lane, what stroke they are doing, where they are.
* I usually just plan ahead and take a few extra kicks underwater when another swimmer passes by going the other direction.
* I cheat towards the middle of the lane to avoid hitting the lane ropes. My arm recovery is too close to the water surface to swim fly very close to the ropes.
* Pass other swimmers doing a fly set at the wall, not mid-pool. Space swimmers out a little more if people vary too much in speed during the set.
* Don't slow a set even more by apologizing when it happens. Save that for between repeats.
* Maintain lane awareness of who else is in the lane, what stroke they are doing, where they are.
* I usually just plan ahead and take a few extra kicks underwater when another swimmer passes by going the other direction.
* I cheat towards the middle of the lane to avoid hitting the lane ropes. My arm recovery is too close to the water surface to swim fly very close to the ropes.
* Pass other swimmers doing a fly set at the wall, not mid-pool. Space swimmers out a little more if people vary too much in speed during the set.
* Don't slow a set even more by apologizing when it happens. Save that for between repeats.
