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winnie
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 Posted: 12/30/07 - 20:13 Post subject:
I find that hard to believe. I have never heard of anybody who managed to swim faster in the open water. The best way to calculate it is to go and find out for yourself. Try to get out in the ocean from time to time and see how long it takes, and then compare that to what you are doing in the pool. Some people who can swim for miles in a pool (with open turns or flip turns) find it difficult to complete a whole mile in open water. The little rest at each turn can make a significant difference. Beside wind, waves, tides and currents, your open water time is effected by how straight you navigate. Some experienced open water swimmers can swim as fast in open water as they do in pools, maybe 2 to 4% slower. Newbies however usually don’t maintain a straight course, which adds to time to the swim, maybe as much as 20 to 30%.
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