Sprint race strategies?

go hard on the swim so your dizzy enough for a volunteer to ask if your ok in T1.
go hard enough on the bike to hurl at least once
stagger into T2
run all out until puking, then repeat until you finish

remember to wipe the vomit off your face for the photo

If you can't taste it, you're not going hard enough.

Really it depends on your fitness level -- how long you can sustain a threshold effort. If that's less than the time it'll take for you to finish the race, then you'll need to back off from that a bit.

 If by doing all of these things you still finished, then I'd say you still won...

Oops!  Double post.

the bear - 2008-06-25 5:38 PM

Um what if you don't have any balls? I used to have a pair of those Chinese hand exercise balls with the chimes but I kept them in my pocket and they clanged when I walked. Will those work?

The draft zone is seven meters (~23 feet) from the leading edge of the front wheel of the bike you're passing. Most commonly it's defined by the officials as three bike lengths. You do have fifteen seconds from entering that zone to complete your pass, and there's nothing that says you cannot stay behind the cyclist in front for most of that fifteen seconds. I would be careful about the "swing out and pass them" part, making damn sure I wasn't being passed before I "swing out."

I'll let the physicists discuss the advantage of drafting 25 feet back. I would, however, be concerned about an overzealous myopic official misjudging the distance and penalizing me anyway.