longtrousers wrote:
In most trainingsessions I do a 400m after warming up. My times were in december
8'14"; 8'32", 8'10",8'16", and in february (in january I was ill) 8'22" and after a leg shave 8'08".
So the leg shave brought 14".
Today I swum the 400m with the Kiwami Aquarush in 7'55".
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(Please don't make remarks on my general swimming times)
So for what it's worth, I guess the Kiwami makes me about 15" faster on 400m. That's 2 1/2 minutes on an Ironman for 200 Euros: 80 Euros pro minute :-) which is ok for me. Put it this way, I'd pay another 200 Euros for another 2 1/2 minutes.
Of course such a result is always to be taken with care: shape of the day and so on. Because of that I plan to do a test with 8*200m, where I change from Swimskin to Speedo or the aother way around after every 200m and swim with the same perceived effort. That should result in a clear up and down difference of 5-10 seconds.
CLOSING THE ZIPPER
I developed a technique now to close the zipper by myself.
With the right hand I hold the right zipper-half between thumb and index finger, where I have the thumb on the inside of the zipper. In the beginning I had the thumb on the outside, but you cannot exert so much power like that.
I also wet the fingers a bit with spit, in that way they hold better on the tissue.
I continue posting my 400m times to compare the speed between a speedo and a swimskin:
Dec 5,16 speedo--------8'14"
Dec 10,16 speedo--------8'32"
Dec 18,16 speedo--------8'10"
Dec 20,16 speedo--------8'16"
Feb 4,17 speedo--------8'22"
Feb 8,17 speedo--------8'08" (after leg shave)
Feb 11,17 swimskin--------7'55"
Feb 13,17 swimskin--------7'51" Feb 18,17 speedo--------8'07"
Feb 21,17 speedo--------8'01"
Feb 23,17 speedo--------8'04"
Feb 28,17 speedo--------7'52" (hooray, first time this season under 8)
March 1,17 speedo--------8'06"
March 6,17 speedo--------7'43"
March 13,17 speedo--------7'55"
March 22,17 speedo--------7'50"
March 26,17 speedo--------7'49"
April 3, 17 swimskin--------7'40"
April 4, 17 swimskin--------7'29" There seems indeed to be a trend that the swimskin is 15s faster than a speedo for me.