Quassy Swim
I am heading up on Friday for Saturday's Quassy Bike Rehearsal and was wondering if anyone knows of somewhere to do an OWS?
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I am heading up on Friday for Saturday's Quassy Bike Rehearsal and was wondering if anyone knows of somewhere to do an OWS?
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As I look over the ruins of a day that slaughtered me on the run I noticed something about my swim time that might be anomalous. In my pool tests I'm a low 1:50's/100 swimmer. Two open water swims in our club's favorite lake yielded 1.2 mile times just about 40 minutes (and that includes 2 rest stops at the corners of the big triangle the course forms so all the club members present can catch up and everyone is accounted for. I stop my Garmin while I wait.). So how in the hell did I ring up a swim time of 31:37 (1:38/100)?? There is simply NO WAY I did that. A couple of other folks in the M45-49 AG also had unbelievable swim times. One guy was stunned by his 28:xx time because he'd never been sub 34 for that distance. Anyone else have a fast swim?
The reason I ask is that a teammate of mine (Larry who came to lunch with us) who normally swims a 1.2 mile course around 30 minutes came in with a 31:49!!! He was in the M50-54 AG. His wave was 3rd or 4th to start and he was regularly passing earlier folks with other swim caps. My wave was last into the water and I was gunning it as hard as I could to stay on someone's - anyone's feet. I know lots of swimmers can create a little bit of a sweeping current but that's ridiculous. Did my pal just run into some bad traffic jams or was my time off? And yes, I know I swam the whole course. ;-)
Peter- My swim (for the Oly) was about 2:30 faster than last year but seemed on track vs. my T-pace. (T-pace is 1:55/100yd and Quassy swim was 2:00/100yd) Tim mentioned he though the Oly course was measured short in his report... Damnm I thought I was getting faster!
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I swam a 35:25 split on Sunday.
Which is within 1 minute of literally every OW swim I have ever done: IMFL 2012 1:12:46, Patriot Half 2012 36:37, Nav-E-Sink swim 2012 1:10:42, IMLou 2011 1:11:52
2011 - 1:50/100 yds
2012 - 1:57/100 yds (poor effort - very unfocused on swim last year)
2013 - 1:38/100 yds
I've made some improvements lately to my catch (thanks to Swim Speed Secrets - http://www.amazon.com/Swim-Speed-Secrets-Swimmers-Triathletes/dp/1934030880), and swam too hard (was wiped out coming out of the water!). But still, 1:38 seems too fast.
Is it the same course?
If so , is it set up exactly as previous years?
Same current and winds as previous years?
I swim in the same lake , same measured distances exactly , and will get varying times that just dont make sense.... For instance 9 times out of 10 I swim faster on my north leg, and then every once in a while I will swim faster on the south leg... Usually differs by a minute so its just not fitness or effort, its winds , currents , conditions etc for that day.....
The best thing you can do is look at your ranking within your AG on a percentage basis for a trend and compare those.... Course those are variable race to race depending on who shows up and how many in your AG but over time you can see a pretty distinct trend and then you can evaluate whether you had a good swim or not.
FWIW based on my time for the OLY swim I thought the course may have been short .
This past Sunday I was 27th out of 111 in M45-49. LOL!!!! I know I've improved but uh, as Lance would have said... "That's not normal."
Anyone else in other waves? I know I asked before but now this isn't a coincidence. So sad. I was beginning to accept my emerging greatness. ;-)