your stroke feels a whole lot easy to do and maintain for a longer period of time. Should You Warm Up Before a Race? Have you ever found that when you get to a triathlon and you get into the swim, that it usually takes a couple hundred meters to warm up and get into it? And by that time you might have dropped off the pace? One of the best things that I've found to do is to do a land-based warm up if you can't get into the water but if you can get into the water then if you can do a couple hundred meters, between 6-8 hundred meters, just to get your stroke feeling good get your body warmed up get the blood flowing. You'll probably find that you've got a lot more energy at the start of the swim. You can get out there faster. If you're not doing any warm up before you get into a race then it takes a good couple hundred meters to get started. By that time that can already have lost you the race. So if you can't get into the water, do a land-based warm up with some running, a couple of push ups, squats, jumps, those sorts of things just to get the body ready to perform and to get out there and race. Finding Your Legs When you finish your swim and you're running out of the water, it can take a little bit of time