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Friday thread, team racing

  • 09-03-2012 9:32pm
    #1
    Donelson
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    Do you think cycling style racing would work for swimming, with a pelaton, and teams, and sprint finishes, and hills specialist, and tt specialist. I think it would be kinda cool :)


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  • #2
    okane1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭okane1


    Its a good idea but in practice would be hard to implement.
    Take cycling for example. In the pelaton, the riders drafting are working 20-50% less than the lead riders and the pace is kept high.
    In swimming, drafting does work but not to the same affect. Also you can't communicate during a swim, moving swimmers around to lead the group, organise attacks etc.

    A better idea would be, say a team of 5 swimmers. Each swimmer would do one or all events and take the total time of each event as the teams overall time.

    Example
    1st event 50m
    2nd event 200m
    3rd event 4x100m
    4th event 1.5km
    5th event 5km

    Would be fun!


  • #3
    2old4dacold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭2old4dacold


    http://www.scribd.com/doc/44651114/Open-Water-Team-Pursuit-Rules

    link describes rules for a 3-swimmer team event


  • #4
    kris71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭kris71


    okane1 wrote: »
    In swimming, drafting does work but not to the same affect.

    I'm not an expert on cycling but I'm pretty sure that you are wrong :D

    In swimming drafting can reduce drag by 20% witch is a lot, considering that resistive force of water is much higher than air due to its density

    Hardest thing to do is to find 4 swimmers of same abilities willing to swim together as a team ;) I always believed its manageable, but now I kind of see an error in my logic I though about it as a way of dragging the slowest swimmer through the race, but if you play it nice 4 strong swimmers could achieve faster times or at least same times with smaller effort... as of communication we could work around that with tapping.

    2old4dacold have you ever done something like that? I must look into it a bit more I would love to find out the difference in time result between team and individual swimmers on the same course (ideally same conditions and swimmers as well ;) )


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