Just had to share: Last nite went to a local lake that I swim in occassionally. Smaller lake, 730 yards from one end to the other (GPS is great). As I was getting ready to go, a local Tri-guy was finishing his swim. I noticed that he was wearing a wet suit. Water temperature was about 81 degrees! I say," isn't it a little warm for a wet suit?" (I would be smothering), he says "Well, there are a couple of cold patches out there!" (probably gets down all the way to 80 degrees for 30 seconds) LOL.
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"I was drafting behind someone and when someone was coming up on my left I picked up my pace using the wake of the swimmer in front of me to sling shot me past her and stay with the passing swimmer. I admit I did touch her feet a few times over the previous 100 yds. "
Her reaction was out of line, however, drafting and touching the draftee's feet is a pretty agressive action. One must be prepared to take evasive steps for the reaction.
Boy, that's blaming the victim.
Anyway, the thing that really surprises me is when the idiot doing this sort of thing has absolutely nothing to gain by it. Maybe they move up from 178 to 176 or something.
I once posted about watching an International Triathlon Union race and seeing a guy in mid pack slapping cups out of the volunteers' hands so the runners behind him wouldn't be able to hydrate. Someone then posted a story about a 10k runner on pace for running about 42 minutes--no threat to win the race--wiping out a whole table of cups for the same reason.
I try to teach athletes to focus on things they can control and not to worry about things they can't control. If you're worried about improving your times and doing the best you can, it doesn't matter if some of the people are faster than you and you don't win the race. You usually can't control whether you win since you don't control how fast your opponents are, you can only control fast you go.
"I was drafting behind someone and when someone was coming up on my left I picked up my pace using the wake of the swimmer in front of me to sling shot me past her and stay with the passing swimmer. I admit I did touch her feet a few times over the previous 100 yds. "
Her reaction was out of line, however, drafting and touching the draftee's feet is a pretty agressive action. One must be prepared to take evasive steps for the reaction.
Boy, that's blaming the victim.
Anyway, the thing that really surprises me is when the idiot doing this sort of thing has absolutely nothing to gain by it. Maybe they move up from 178 to 176 or something.
I once posted about watching an International Triathlon Union race and seeing a guy in mid pack slapping cups out of the volunteers' hands so the runners behind him wouldn't be able to hydrate. Someone then posted a story about a 10k runner on pace for running about 42 minutes--no threat to win the race--wiping out a whole table of cups for the same reason.
I try to teach athletes to focus on things they can control and not to worry about things they can't control. If you're worried about improving your times and doing the best you can, it doesn't matter if some of the people are faster than you and you don't win the race. You usually can't control whether you win since you don't control how fast your opponents are, you can only control fast you go.
