I've heard it's legal. Any strategies that work? How do you know that the person you're behind is helping you or holding you back?
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Concerning legality of drafting, it is pretty hard not to draft in some of the shorter races where there are packs of people all moving from point to point. Also, I've seen 2 FINA 10k races and there was drafting in those, so it's probably legal. Some races (e.g. MIMS and Atlantic City Marathon) do expressly forbid drafting.
Besides, at least in shorter races, drafting is one of the things that makes them so much fun - you try to draft and they try to drop you; they draft and you try to drop them. Sometimes temporary drafting "alliances" form almost by psychic agreement and then you get to a point where you try to break each other.
Good, clean fun for kids.
-LBJ
Concerning legality of drafting, it is pretty hard not to draft in some of the shorter races where there are packs of people all moving from point to point. Also, I've seen 2 FINA 10k races and there was drafting in those, so it's probably legal. Some races (e.g. MIMS and Atlantic City Marathon) do expressly forbid drafting.
Besides, at least in shorter races, drafting is one of the things that makes them so much fun - you try to draft and they try to drop you; they draft and you try to drop them. Sometimes temporary drafting "alliances" form almost by psychic agreement and then you get to a point where you try to break each other.
Good, clean fun for kids.
-LBJ
