Alright, triathletes take your mark, go.
Oh, Glenn, with the touch, all the way from Australia for this event. Glenn gets the touch. Alright. It is fun for these campers to come to a swim session. There is five time world champion Simon Lessing here, and Michael Lovato who was a top American, eighth place finish at Ironman last year. Monica Caplan is over there, Chris Moffet from Australia. So it's fun for these people to say, oh my gosh, I swim in the same lane or the same pool as all these top triathletes.
What we worked today on was the basics of swimming. Again, you could spend as long as you want on swimming, its the most technique oriented of the three sports. On a scale of 1-10, if 10 is most difficult, I would put running at about 6, I would put swimming at about 8 or 9, compared to other sports, and I would put cycling at about 3. So that shows you the importance of technique with swimming. It's great to learn how to do the technique properly first, and then to start your endurance training later.
The main things that I stressed today were to not cross the midline of your body with your hands, to have high elbows; it's not totally necessary, but it does help people from crossing the midline. Short little kicks to help propel them forward and to keep their body in balance, as well as a balanced head position, which I don't force it; either be too high or too low. I like to have people kind of have a natural body balance unless I see it really awkward.
But one way to help balance the body is to breathe towards the corner that you are swimming to. I am not saying prick your neck up, I am just saying look towards the corner that you are going to.
If you can do those things and if you can learn to basically -- I start out having them swim like a barge, like a brick, a boat going to the water, like a barge pulling something, and then we want them to turn into a speedboat. So eventually you have them starting like this, not crossing the midline, and you say, okay, let's start rotating more, and then turning into a speedboat. But it doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen overnight.
Anyways, that's the gist of swimming. We did some open water swimming, kind of at the end, where we worked on sighting, as well as banging into each other, getting people used to what that feels like at a swim.
Alright, we have been on the Boulder Peak course, and right now if you are doing the race you would be about six miles on the course. Then what you do is, from here as you hit what's called the beast, and its a three quarter of a mile climb, at about 15% great, at the steepest point, and then it flattens out for about a half mile, and then you have like another --
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