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drafting-why not fins??
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I think a cool grass-roots-type-of-tri would be let you take/use whatever non-motorized gizzmos you want, as long as you carry everything with you throughout the whole race (save bike helmet, but include running shoes for the swim). A venue could be, for example, swim to an island, do a cross-country-run, with a swim back to shore, followed by a bike. Anybody else got some ideas on fun & new formats? If we come up with something good, maybe a race director/promotor will pick up on one of these ideas. Pat – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How about fins in the swim? With drafting rearing its ugly head (QRman) this might be a time to propose some new things to do in the other events. Just think of all the advancement that would be made in new gear for this. We could have some more toys to buy. Why should we be limited to bike innovations? It would help bring in new people to the sport. After all, the swim is famous for being the deciding factor for some people trying a tri. Ken
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How about fins in the swim? With drafting rearing its ugly head (QRman) this might be a time to propose some new things to do in the other events. Just think of all the advancement that would be made in new gear for this. We could have some more toys to buy. Why should we be limited to bike innovations? It would help bring in new people to the sport. After all, the swim is famous for being the deciding factor for some people trying a tri. Ken
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How about fins in the swim? With drafting rearing its ugly head (QRman) this might be a time to propose some new things to do in the other events.
Screw that noise – get one of those underwater scooters that Mike Nelson used to use on "Sea Hunt" <g Tom
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How about fins in the swim? With drafting rearing its ugly head
Well, how about something to help us swimmers that cant run? Fair is fair right. Runners that sink get wetsuits, and get to draft in the bike portion. We swimmers could use wings on our sneakers.
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How about fins in the swim? With drafting rearing its ugly head (QRman) this might be a time to propose some new things to do in the other events. Just think of all the advancement that would be made in new gear for this. We could have some more toys to buy. Why should we be limited to bike innovations? It would help bring in new people to the sport. After all, the swim is famous for being the deciding factor for some people trying a tri. Ken
Triathlon swimming is a full contact sport. Imagine a pair of fins slapping you across the face or hands every so often. It’s definitely not a nice feeling. Plus I just feel it would compromise swimming even further if this was instituted. The wetsuit I can give excuses to (protection against cold). Fins I can’t. Just my opinion. "Iron Pete" Priolo IMC’96 – 10:36:37 IMC’97 – 10:42:53 ‘98 – Gulf Coast Tri, IMC – confirmed ‘98 – Buffalo Springs Lake Tri, Blackwater Eagleman – unconfirmed
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Well, how about something to help us swimmers that cant run? Fair is fair right. Runners that sink get wetsuits, and get to draft in the bike portion. We swimmers could use wings on our sneakers.
I say skateboards – think of the blazing run splits! Ok, I concede that it might be awkward on trail runs. Alison Keple Mill Bay, BC
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… I say skateboards – think of the blazing run splits! Ok, I concede that it might be awkward on trail runs.
Not if you use those off-road skateboards that are used around here on the ski hills – in the summer! Tom
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How about fins in the swim? With drafting rearing its ugly head (QRman) this might be a time to propose some new things to do in the other events. Just think of all the advancement that would be made in new gear for this. We could have some more toys to buy. Why should we be limited to bike innovations? It would help bring in new people to the sport. After all, the swim is famous for being the deciding factor for some people trying a tri. Ken
In order to be truly tri-worthy, the swimming aids should be high-tech, elaborate, and expensive, while still being human-powered. Carbon-Kevlar monofins are a good place to start (I can hear chiropracters all over America cheering us on!). But for true speed that would satisfy all of us tech-weenies, it would be hard to beat a gizmo a swim coach of mine bought in Florida some 20 years ago: it was a hinged contraption made of aircraft aluminum tubes and wood, shaped something like below: | | | | | | | | <– Wooden "wing" or foil | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The wooden wings were milled into an airfoil shape. The rear wings were doubled up, biplane fashion, and your ankles were nestled between those two wings. There were some ropes between the front and rear wing surfaces, rigged so that the pitch of the front wings would affect the pitch of the rear wings. You swam it by laying on top of it with your ankles locked between the rear biplane wings, moving with a dolphin kick motion. The achievable speed was awesome–It was like being towed by a boat. A snorkel was nearly a necessity, since it liked to cruise a bit lower than the surface. Now that would be a tri-toy–especially the titanium hollow-wing version. — Rick Teichler StorageTek Software Engineering (Louisville, Colorado) For Email replies, use: teichler <at sweng <dot stortek <dot com