FREE SPEED: How to draft and sight OPEN WATER SWIMMING in a triathlon
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Drafting and sighting while swimming during a triathlon can make a huge difference in how fast you swim during a triathlon and the decision between drafting and sighting or not with your triathlon swimming technique likely isn't as clear as most triathletes think.
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Good video Taren! More sighting is always better for us age groupers. Video idea: sighting techniques in different stroke frequencies. Some sight before a breathe, some in between, some in a completely natural non breaking way, some almost come to a full stop 😬.
That list would be endless, though -- it's just a matter of working the sighting into your own stroke and practicing it so you get good at it. There's no way I could really list and show every single different way people swim and then how to sight for that, you know?
This is by far the best and easy way to explain fast open water swim for a age grouper like me.....thanks taren.......👍
Thank you for this video, im preparing for my first open water swim race this weekend and ddnt have proper training 😅 sighting is my weakness
If you want to draft faster feet you need more speed... improvement of 100-200m speed will get you into the next group. To quote Dr Josh White (Michigan's distance coach....) In order to get faster, you gotta get faster. Improvement in drop dead speed will help your longer distance performance.
Treat sighting like a drill in the pool. Be deliberate and work on it at times, but not in every main set.
Honestly, for my swim I'm just trying to survive haha! I'm always one of the last out of the water for my age group. Great tips though that I can try to implement with my Half Ironman I have coming up in 2 weeks!!
This was good I went swimming today and my husband video recorded my and I see my sighting is way off. Back to the drawing board.
Great information.
BTY where did you get you bike racks behind you? Keep up the good content
On a side note: I'm so happy IM went to self seeding swim starts. The old wave format was crap for the young AG athletes. It made it nearly impossible to find someone to trust drafting off of. We always started in the last couple of swim waves making T-Bone collisions with poor slighters who zig zagged all over the place. It was always awkward slithering over top of people. Not only was it bad for us but it was bad for the inexperienced swimmers as they got trampled.
Super good! Thank you.
Yes been needing this video. Thanks T
50k subs! Congrats, Taren
Thanks Sam!
As a good swimmer, I don't like to be drafted in swimming. But I have a weak bike. I love to draft in biking.
Floaty pants and pull bouys :-)...I like your style. Hope JR is ok with that. Keep up the great vids.
Yikes! No wonder i don't swim fast like you... I average about 32-38 strokes/min. But now i can get an advantage sighting more often!
This helped massively.
but you did not explain how to sight. Only why.
Thanks Taren great video
Excellent tips Taren as I always tend to go a bit off line when swimming in the pool (no lines) and in the sea since I started training. Question please. What is a decent time for a 400mtr swim please? I would like to compare my average time of 4min 20 sec but cannot seem to find any info anywhere. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and good day to all.
Sorry Taren, dont agree. Sighting is not as simple as u indicate imho. I live on a lake and spend a lot of time in open water. I use the same sighting marker at my home which is a large building across the lake. My swim times at home were close to my pool times which is to say slow. My first half was really slow cause, like u said, i think i was all over the place. I believe sighting off closer objects like bouys was very different than my practice and my race suffered. Almost last person out of the swim. Takes a lot of racing to learn to sight, again imho.
You are sort of right Mark. It isn't the act of sighting that's different it is what you are looking at. There's a huge difference between sighting on a landmark, like a tree on shore and sighting on a swim buoy. Depending on the size the buoy might disappear in the waves or behind the splashing of the other swimmers. So what you need to do somehow is find swim buoys to practice with in the open water.
congrats to the sub 50k subscribers
Thanks Myron!!
What watch are you wearing?
Drafting on the hips slows down you and the person your drafting, according to The Brownlees
I knew watching this channel would help my slow mind eventually. Not alot going on up there..😂🤙
When are you changing that camera lens? :)
Drafting is cheating! I know it would be hard to police in the water, but the gain is even higher in the water than on the bike, no?
There are no rules against drafting in the water, so it's not cheating. Because everyone starts more or less together policing it is almost impossible without a TT start. The gains on a bike are in the neighbourhood of 30% if you're right on someone's wheel at ~40 kmh. Swim drafting is less beneficial because your moving at about 3 to 4 kmh even though the viscosity is so much greater than air.
@@cphilipbrown You're repeating exactly my point. If drafting is cheating on the bike it should be considered the same in the water, but I know it's impossible to police. Which is why there is no rule. I'm asking about the gains, because I cannot find any scientific data. Estimations mean nothing without proper background. Where did you retrieve your numbers?
@@Try2Tri You can read something like this: cyclingtips.com/2017/10/much-benefit-really-get-drafting/ There are links in the article to the actual studies done. Drafting on a bike is about 30% but if in a big group can be as large as 40%
@@Try2Tri I think you misunderstood. Drafting on the bike is cheating because it's against the rules of the sport. Drafting on the swim is not against the rules therefore it is not cheating. Without an individual start you cannot prevent drafting on the swim. That's true of any endurance sport. Let's say you have 500 competitors. At 30 second intervals that's 4 hours and 10 minutes to start all competitors. That is not feasible.
@@LogBaseTwo thanks man