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Another way, which is similiar, is how I do it.  Personally, I breath every stroke.  So I breath 5 times to my left side, then when I go to breath, instead of breathing to the left, I look in front of me and sight while inhaling.  My head goes back in the water on my right side and I breath 5 times on that side and repeat.  Start with 3 strokes because you will find that you zig zag if you're not consistant on each side.

A great way to practice is to put a water bottle at each end of your lane.  Every third stroke, sight on the water bottle.  If you're in a 50 meter pool, you can use a kick board leaned against your water bottle.  Swimming with your eyes closed is a great way to see if you are favoring one side and practice swimming straight, but IMO not a great way to practice sighting.

kriscrn - 2007-06-01 12:28 PM Hey everybody...thanks for the inspires! Its been great catching up on the thread. I definitely needed the advice on sighting. So, here is my question for all of you veterans out there.....My first tri is in 10 days....what do you know now that you wish you had known at your first tri? (Besides, just have fun with it....I'm planning on that!!! ) TIA

In my first tri, I was very intimidated.  I saw a bunch of people walking around that were in a lot better shape than me and I started to doubt myself.  Please don't do that to yourself.  Train hard and do the race.  Don't let anyone else make you feel like you can't do it, because you can and you know it.  Self-doubt on race day is never good.

Always remember DFL >>> DNF >>> DNS.  For those that have never seen that on this site, it means Dead F*cking Last is WAY better than Did Not Finish is WAY better than Did Not Start.

Everyone's stroke is different, so you really need to just practice and find what works best for you.  I am also a Total Immersion swimmer!

I think this is totally a personal choice.  I do know that the 35-39 age group tends to be the fastest, if that helps you make a decision.

Total Immersion is a school of thought regarding your swim stroke.  Generally, it involves rolling your body from side to side during each stroke.  It gets a bit more complicated than that, but you get the idea....

Some people don't like it, but personally, I think its great.  Especially for beginners.

Like Robyn said, Total Immersion is just a style or method of swimming.  Basically it goes on the premise that completely submerged head is more streamlined.  It's a great way to get people use to swimming that are not comfortable in the water.  Very methodical.  Here is the website: http://www.totalimmersion.net/

Athena is just another subset for Triathlon.  Just like an Age Group.  Like others have said, it's based purely off of weight not experience.    My recommendation is to register as an Athena.  Both groups will be competitive, so you'll do great in either one.

Aaron, highlight the text that you want to cross out and click the "strikethrough" button.  It looks like ABC with a line through it.  It's the 4th button.  There is B for Bold, I for Italics, U for underline, and then the ABC for strikethrough.

At least it makes it harder for people to bully you around in the water.  I got punched in the face by some dude at my last race.  If he hadn't been 4x my size I would have punched him back.