>Drafting puts you in a bit of a vulnerable position; If he slows > abruptly you will be on his back deck in no time and it will probably be you > that goes over ============= oh- no!! at a race a couple of years ago, a guy showed up who had heard that drafting was the thing to do. so he did just that behind 3 guys for 13 miles.... bumping at a rate of about once every 3 minutes for about 2 hrs. i had been first in his list to draft and found the bumping to be a pain, so i talked with another fellow about it during a work out a few weeks later. this fellow instructed me in the art of slowing, letting the fellow onto the back deck, and then listening to him go over... oh what a lovely sound as you paddle away. we don't really want to use that technique do we? certainly not. so my point is, if you'r going to draft.... learn to do it before race day... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 10:33:53 PST
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