pool start question

Carol Scheible said:

Hi,

I am doing a beginner tri next month, which has a pool start. Do pool
starts typically begin with a swim dive into the water? Just wondering if I
need to practice my dive. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated!

Seems like pool tris are fairly rare, but the ones I have done all
started in the water. JC

Carol Scheible said:

Hi,

I am doing a beginner tri next month, which has a pool start. Do pool
starts typically begin with a swim dive into the water? Just wondering if I
need to practice my dive. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated!

.... you don't get a lane each, you know! With 3 or 4 already in the
lane, diving in could have pretty dire consequences (:

Steve

The only one that I ever did, I split a lane with one other swimmer.

I think there were 12 people in each wave and the waves went off every
12 minutes. 500 yard swim. You had 10 minutes to complete your swim,
or they pulled you out to an additional lane. I don't know what
happened there.

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Quoted message said:

I am doing a beginner tri next month, which has a pool start. Do pool
starts typically begin with a swim dive into the water? Just wondering
if I need to practice my dive. Any other tips would be greatly
appreciated!

Quoted message said:

... you don't get a lane each, you know!

I know that I'll be doing 16 laps, up and down each of eight lanes. I guess
I'll need to practice doing flip turns where I end up in the next lane.

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With 3 or 4 already in the lane, diving in could have pretty dire
consequences (:

Good point...I hadn't thought of that! I'm glad I don't have to do a
dive...as I suck at that..

Thanks all for the helpful comments.

Carol
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We have a local race that has a pool swim - staggered start - person starts
like every 30 seconds and they go up and back across the entire pool.
Something to consider before the race is how to go from lane to lane (I see
some jump over the lane divider) - I push off the wall and move from one
lane to the other. So you have swimmers on both sides of the lane - with
the middle of the lane for passing.

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Quoted message said:

Hi,

I am doing a beginner tri next month, which has a pool start. Do pool
starts typically begin with a swim dive into the water? Just wondering if

I

Quoted message said:

need to practice my dive. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated!

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Thanks!
Carol Scheible
[email hidden]

If you know how to do flip turns already. fine. If you have to learn
flip turns don't bother taking the time, just practice pushing off.

Carol Scheible said:

I know that I'll be doing 16 laps, up and down each of eight lanes. I guess
I'll need to practice doing flip turns where I end up in the next lane.

Onne said:

If you know how to do flip turns already. fine. If you have to learn
flip turns don't bother taking the time, just practice pushing off.

Carol Scheible said:

I know that I'll be doing 16 laps, up and down each of eight lanes. I
guess I'll need to practice doing flip turns where I end up in the
next lane.

Last one I did in this configuration, they were banned.

Steve

banned the flip turn?

Steve said:

Onne said:

If you know how to do flip turns already. fine. If you have to learn
flip turns don't bother taking the time, just practice pushing off.

Carol Scheible said:

I know that I'll be doing 16 laps, up and down each of eight lanes.
I guess I'll need to practice doing flip turns where I end up in the
next lane.

Last one I did in this configuration, they were banned.

Steve

Onne said:

banned the flip turn?

Yup.

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Steve said:

Onne said:

If you know how to do flip turns already. fine. If you have to learn
flip turns don't bother taking the time, just practice pushing off.

Carol Scheible wrote:

> I know that I'll be doing 16 laps, up and down each of eight lanes.
> I guess I'll need to practice doing flip turns where I end up in the
> next lane.

Last one I did in this configuration, they were banned.

Steve