… ok, not really, but I finally bothered to look up some of the tech people have been talking about on the Wet January thread, and holy moly goggles have evolved.
Are the ones that show you real time pace data legal in masters meets? Open water races (meaning standalone swim)? Triathlons w open water swims? Triathlons w pool swims?
… ok, not really, but I finally bothered to look up some of the tech people have been talking about on the Wet January thread, and holy moly goggles have evolved.
Are the ones that show you real time pace data legal in masters meets? Open water races (meaning standalone swim)? Triathlons w open water swims? Triathlons w pool swims?
You need a watch and in Australia you can’t wear a watch in pool meets or OWS.
… ok, not really, but I finally bothered to look up some of the tech people have been talking about on the Wet January thread, and holy moly goggles have evolved.
Are the ones that show you real time pace data legal in masters meets? Open water races (meaning standalone swim)? Triathlons w open water swims? Triathlons w pool swims?
Don’t know about triathlons but no type of pacing device is allowed in USMS events, both meets and OWS. Personally, I think would be very distracting to have all that info in your face the whole time you’re swimming. I’m fairly sure that you, just like me, can tell how fast you’re going by how much effort you’re putting out, to within a second or 2 of what the clock or your watch says.
You need a watch and in Australia you can’t wear a watch in pool meets or OWS.
the FORM goggles aren’t a watch on your wrist though
do they still count as a watch?
FORM is 100% legal for USA triathlon stuff. Honestly it in open water is the reason I haven’t sold my pair. I simply can’t wear them in the pool—it makes me sick. But that’s also due to my optic nerve dysfunction post TBI.
Don’t know about triathlons but no type of pacing device is allowed in USMS events, both meets and OWS. Personally, I think would be very distracting to have all that info in your face the whole time you’re swimming. I’m fairly sure that you, just like me, can tell how fast you’re going by how much effort you’re putting out, to within a second or 2 of what the clock or your watch says.
I do some OW races that aren’t USMS.
Not sure on the distraction, I see the clock every length anyway.
I can usually tell in the pool, but not OW, which is why these are semi intriguing to me. Generally I’d rather swim in the pool than OW because I love (and love to hate) the clock
FORM is 100% legal for USA triathlon stuff. Honestly it in open water is the reason I haven’t sold my pair. I simply can’t wear them in the pool—it makes me sick. But that’s also due to my optic nerve dysfunction post TBI.
they don’t make you sick in OW?
Don’t know about triathlons but no type of pacing device is allowed in USMS events, both meets and OWS. Personally, I think would be very distracting to have all that info in your face the whole time you’re swimming. I’m fairly sure that you, just like me, can tell how fast you’re going by how much effort you’re putting out, to within a second or 2 of what the clock or your watch says.
I do some OW races that aren’t USMS.
Not sure on the distraction, I see the clock every length anyway.
I can usually tell in the pool, but not OW, which is why these are semi intriguing to me. Generally I’d rather swim in the pool than OW because I love (and love to hate) the clock
Ya, I look at my old-school Timex Ironman watch every so often, maybe every 50 or 100 or not until 200, but looking at a clock/watch even every 25 is not the same as having all these numbers in your eyeballs every second of your swim. I have not tried them but I just put them in the category of tri-geek stuff that Eric will stay away from. Just give me my watch and 15 yr old Swedes and I’m good to go. 
No—my issue winds up being sensory overload of the textured pool bottom plus the data plus trying to figure out where to turn. If the pool were deeper, or if it weren’t a textured bottom, I’d be OK. But it’s not…so I wind up vomiting in the gutter without fail.