Blog tagged as sighting

Open Water Swimming Techniques - Sighting
Sighting is one of the most underrated and under practised elements of open water swimming. Do it wrong, you kill your stroke. Do it too often, you drain your energy. Not enough, you zigzag. If you are going to do sighting, do it right.
Swimming The Ironman Wales Circuit
One of the hardest and most relentless full-distance courses in the world. It features a chaotic, choppy sea swim, a punishing bike route with nearly 2,500m of elevation gain, and a hilly coastal marathon. Here's how to tackle the swim...

When the sun is in your eyes and you cannot see features on the land itself as they are silhouetted by the sun, it's often hard to sight on anything noticeable when open water swimming.


In this case, you can use the horizon itself, a feature on the horizon, even a small dip or rise, something that is...