I just looked at results of Open Water World Cup 2005 in Argentina and have a hard time comprehending how you can swim that fast for that long.Anyways, as an example the first place in a 21 km. swim was won in 2:00.30.40, which roughly translates to about 10km per hour or 34.43 SECONDS per 100 meters.How in the world is that possible?Can the current really help you out that much and out of curiousity what would you think that speed would translate into in the pool?In other words how fast would a swimmer like that swim 1500m. in a pool?
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I did not exactly meant that you'd be tired more or less in 18 min. of swimming in a pool or open water.I just thought that maybe a triathlonist swimming 1.5km in 18 min. in open water would spend more time to cover the same distanse in a pool(considering the current, but as it was explained earlier, the swim is mostly performed in a lake with no "help" from a current)
I did not exactly meant that you'd be tired more or less in 18 min. of swimming in a pool or open water.I just thought that maybe a triathlonist swimming 1.5km in 18 min. in open water would spend more time to cover the same distanse in a pool(considering the current, but as it was explained earlier, the swim is mostly performed in a lake with no "help" from a current)
