In effort to even the playing field since triathlon is so heavily skewed against swimming I say us fishies enter into a pact of silence or misdirection. All these threads here on ST posted by the stones asking 8000 questions about how to swim, I say we just plain ignore them or even engage in a bit of subterfuge if you know what i mean.
Seriously I have flippers for feet and I run like a duck, I need all the help I can get to stay competitive in this sport. These wimpy, super short, only 10% of the total time spent swims are crap. So it’s time we take our revenge on the stones I say let-em sink!!
There are a couple guys in my club that are better cyclists/runners than I am and I help them with their swimming. Sometimes I wonder why am I helping them beat me even more.
It’s cool though, with Triathletes wasting so much time endlessly rehashing whether their pinky fingers have the correct pitch angle on their recovery, or waste hours kicking, races will start having even shorter swims. Perhaps with global warming we’ll continue to see stormy events like IM Wisconsin 2006 and watch all of the posers choke and DNF…
A great idea would be to campaign to eliminate wetsuits…
What I’ve been hearing and after watching the FINA worlds…The correct way to swim is as follows:
-The Roll is over rated. The roll engages your core which should be saved for good cycling form. Reduce your roll to nothing…think of a barge plowing through the water.
-Your arms need to spin like windmills. Windmills make electricty that is how you power your way through the swim.
-For Pete’s sake, make sure you cross over and drag your hand across your face! Think Pulp Fiction dancing. This creates a snake effect. Have you seen how fast snakes swim? They’re on to something…years of evolution went into their form.
You can take these Tips right to the front of the pack…
Anyone practicing swimming is totally wasting their time!! It does nothing but destroy your body for the bike and run!! So, if one really wants to suceed at
Tris, they need do only do more is more on biking and running. With the ability to wear wet suits, there clearly is no reason to practice swimming. :o)
If the non swimmers can wear wetsuits to make them faster why can’t I, as a long time non-runner, wear something to make me run faster, like rollerblades maybe.
i totaly agree with your idea and been actually working on sending everyone the wrong way in the recent days but some actual swimmers didnt play along. I need as big of a lead out of the water next weekend in AZ…would be nice to win a ironman because of the swim!
let s start the thread…wetsuit are faster when wear inside out…!!!
Fingers crossed for a freak waves in the IMAZ swim to help Jonnyo.Watch all the landlubbers cry like babies!Can't believe they cancel so many triathlon swims just cause there is a typhoon or hurricane around.Call yourselves Ironmen.Shame!Shame!Shame! ;)
As a former USS swimmer, I don’t get why more Triathletes don’t swim butterfly. So much easier to sight and so much faster in open water to compensate for the waves
"I just love saying "nice swim" as I cycle, or more often, run by ;-)"
Sure we may have moved up three waves and run you over while you were kicking breaststroke to sight around the last buoy, but there’s no reason to be mean!
Seriously, if you want to bug a swimmer, that’s a good way to do it…just be nice about it. I know my wife and I have both received some less than “fun” versions of these comments on the bike and run. I can’t remember the last tri I did where someone on the run didn’t say “come on big guy, you can do it!” Little do they know my race essentially ended at T1.
