pool swim?
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CRNA1 posted 3 years ago.
Most of the time they do a time trial start. Sending one swimmer every 20 seconds and you will swim serpintine (sp) back and forth and exit out the other side of the pool. I gets crazy if the person behind you passes you, so swim fast. Pay attention to the on coming swimmer that will be on the other side of your lane as you swim back and forth. You can do flips. The transition is the same in designated area after you exit the pool
Its not that bad
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Micks posted 3 years ago.
I've heard of it being done a couple of ways. The first is everyone gets their own half of a lane and you do your full swim. When you're done the next person jumps in and starts their swim. The first 16 people will start at the same time and then everyone after that is staggered. Flip turns were allowed. This was done for a swim/run race, not a full triathlon, and i don't think it would work if you had lots of people.
The second way would be a open water style. You would swim in rectangles around the pool, with bouys, just like in an open water swim. Usually they would divide this into age groups or male/female so that there aren't too many people in the pool at once. Of course flip turns would not be needed here.
In both cases the transition was the same as in any other triathlon.
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brn2run posted 3 years ago.
The pool Tri I did wasn't bad at all. We started every 5 seconds. The fastest swimmers(we gave 100 meter estimates) went first. The lanes were wide and roped. You had plenty of room to pass, or be passed. You weren't ever in a lane swimmimg towards someone. Our transition area was right outside of the pool.
Try to get some warmup time in if you can. It's hard to just jump in the water and start swimming cold.
I saw alot of people doing flip-turns, and alot just touching and pushing off. You'll be fine either way. Good-Luck! BOB
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BrianMc posted 3 years ago.
In the one I did, they had waves every 20 minutes, with 2 people per lane starting from opposite ends. It was a sprint distance, so the next wave of 16 didn't start until after everyone was done from the first swim, so you never really ran into anyone. At most the other person in you lane would pass you 2 or 3 times, but we tried to match people by speed so this wasn't really a problem.
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jess1 posted 3 years ago.
My first triathlon was a pool one; and they did it in reverse format to cut down on pool crowding. 50 competitors (probably a smaller triathlon, but im a newbie so no idea)
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caroline24 posted 3 years ago.
It was a little strange. They put us in every 20 seconds so it took over an hour and a half for all the competitors to get in the water -- people were done before others started. That was a shame for anyone who plans what and when they eat or or warmup. Some of the lanes were also really narrow making passing possible but hard. I talked to some people who did 2 lengths too many b/c the ropes weren't clear between lanes. But hey, a tri is a tri and its always fun! I wouldn't choose to do another pool swim but if it happened b/c of nature (this one was b.c of extreme low tide) I wouldn't back out.
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geochuck posted 3 years ago.
Caroline
Your quote from Roger Bannister was interesting to me, Roger was a great runner I was there for the Miracle Mile in Vancouver, (Bannister and Landy) It was a terrific race. Very few people knew at the time that John Landy had stepped on a broken Coke bottle two days before the race and had several stitches in his foot. I was in the hospital the day he had the stitches.
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caroline24 posted 3 years ago.
WOW! That's awesome. I've seen a lot of races in my day, but nothing that amazing. That's one I would cherish for a long time. I didn't know what about Landy -- makes the story a little more interesting.
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geochuck posted 3 years ago.
Here it is, watch as Landy turns to see where Bannister is near the end of the race. http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-41-1303-7607-10/sports/four_minute_mile/
I apparently signed up for a pool swim tri on August 7th (really I just looked for a race that weekend and didn't pay attention to the details so I just found this out). How does that work? How many people do they stuff in a lane. Assuming the pool is indoors how does the transition work? Can you do flipturns (I hope not b/c I don't know how so it would put me at a disadvantage)?
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