JasoninHalifax wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
Sanders only gets love on ST if he talks about his awesome biking. Since his blog posted about an awesome swim, no one hear cares. If he posted on his blog that he's flipping sponsors over to Cervelo/Trek/Specialized, there would be 500,000 posts. Him talking about working on his form in his endless pool = NO STORY HERE PEOPLE!
He did point out that he has been able to use his endless pool mirror to see what he is doing and instantly get feedback and try things.
He also talked about swimming slower at 1:45 to go faster at race speed, something a few people were just discussing on one of the swimming oriented threads around here.
Hmm, I wonder who might have said something about that?
I think Sanders has made awesome progress in his swim, thanks largely to a focus on technique (looking at you, lightheir) and just plain working hard. Still a ways to go, the ultimate proof will be non-wetsuit swims since the wetsuit does even out the field a bit, but he is getting there.
That stupid mustache is probably costing him 15-30 seconds...
In his blog post, LS seems to say that he feels he improved his swim in the 5 weeks between Kona and AZ. When you think about it though, Kona was non-wettie vs wettie in AZ so his perceived 2 min improvement could have easily been due to the wettie. Plus, you really can't compare swim times between diff events since they are often diff distances. I just don't think he really improved his swim from 53 to 51 in 5 weeks.
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