Lance Armstrong swam in a 2.4 mile open water swim this weekend and was only beaten by two professional triathletes. He swam the distance in 49+ minutes and missed out on the win by only 22 seconds. WOW!
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you three are hilarious - 2.4 miles in open water in 50 minutes is hauling ass.
bob - you make quite a few assumptions there too. We might suppose armstrong and the two triathletes have trained together too... I have never thought 'drafting' was the easiest skill to come by.
No one said it was easy, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that there is not a single professional or amateur triathlete in the world that could draft better on a bike that he can, or understands it better than he does. One good reading of Analysis of drafting effects in swimming using computational fluid dynamics is all he would need.
As for the time: a couple of years ago I showed up at a 4K swim. I was training for a Half Ironman at the time, not focusing on just OW. It was a lake and everyone wore wetsuits, me included. I was 56 y/o and just back into the water after being out for well over a decade - and 20 years since I raced. On top of that I did not my shoulder surgery until a year later.
At the finish I was 11 out of 142 overall and spent less than 25% of the time drafting. My time was 54:22. I was surprised that I placed so high and assumed the fast swimmers didn't show up. Lance is smart enough to come to the same conclusion.
you three are hilarious - 2.4 miles in open water in 50 minutes is hauling ass.
bob - you make quite a few assumptions there too. We might suppose armstrong and the two triathletes have trained together too... I have never thought 'drafting' was the easiest skill to come by.
No one said it was easy, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that there is not a single professional or amateur triathlete in the world that could draft better on a bike that he can, or understands it better than he does. One good reading of Analysis of drafting effects in swimming using computational fluid dynamics is all he would need.
As for the time: a couple of years ago I showed up at a 4K swim. I was training for a Half Ironman at the time, not focusing on just OW. It was a lake and everyone wore wetsuits, me included. I was 56 y/o and just back into the water after being out for well over a decade - and 20 years since I raced. On top of that I did not my shoulder surgery until a year later.
At the finish I was 11 out of 142 overall and spent less than 25% of the time drafting. My time was 54:22. I was surprised that I placed so high and assumed the fast swimmers didn't show up. Lance is smart enough to come to the same conclusion.
