I love that ad.
That’s to funny, I thought I was forgeting something in my training.
New addition to tri camps?
looks a lot like the race I did last weekend.
Exactly why I start well out to the side, until the ‘scrum’ breaks up.
I actually started toward the back. The ‘slow’ people behind me went out strong, beat the tar out of me, then 50m later, slowed to a crawl. So after I was run over and beaten down, I got to run back into people and get kicked in the face. Didn’t see clear water until I was 50m off the other shore.
Start WAY out to the side away from the buoy. Even if the first buoy is only 100m away and you start 40 meters to one side, you will swim a whole extra 7 yards. AND, you’ll avoid that mess. So, unless you are prepared to swim like Monty and can start at the front and stay there, start wide, settle into a nice smooth stroke and look for someone to draft off of and head there after you get beyond the initial melee’.