Subject: Result for the 2016 NYC Trialthon Here is the link.
http://edge.raceresults360.com/rr360/race/NZF44i/#/results::1473904...
I'm new to the sport but what got me was how fast the professional swam. I mean this was a 1500 meter open water swim but the fastest time was 12:02 for a 1500 meter !!
I looked up the world record for the 1500 meter pool long course and it's somewhere around 14:31 by Sun Yang.
Again I'm new to the sport but was surprise how fast some people can swim. Why not try out for 1500 meter Olympic swimming if they can do 12 minutes in open water.
I know that wearing wet suit can give you better buoyancy but there is the issues of sighting and maybe even waves that can make it harder to swim in open water unless I missing something. I'm much faster in the pool than in the open water only because of sighting and sometimes the waves that slows me down.
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