monty wrote:
Forget about all the garmin distances that you and others got, just use the pro swim times to tell if the course was accurate or not. And from the looks of it, it seems spot on. All other kinds of reasons you might have swam slow( as compared to what exactly?), but being a long course does not seem to be one of them..
Actually I'm convinced that I am swimming in every direction but straight. I have done this race three timea and I compared my relative placing in AG and gender and it got significantly worse. If the course was long then I would have seen no change or a relative improvement. Bottom line is my swim sucked. I could tell I was further away from the buoys than usual but I felt I had more open water and I really thought I was going fairly straight. As a matter of fact I purposefully sighted every 12 strokes instead of every six as I have done in the past hoping it would gain me speed. What it gained me was inaccuracy.
I have an Olympic in one month and I hope to implement lessons learned. Stick to the buoys, sight more often AND keep my form and stroke count.
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