During Interbike two months ago I swam at a pool in Henderson, just outside of Las Vegas. I swam next to a team workout which I assume (but do not know for certain) was the Boulder City Henderson Heatwave. What I noticed: every swimmer used, during a particular set, a center-mount snorkel. There were a lot of kids in that pool who, I promise you, will outswim me along with the great majority of those reading. This is a conundrum: Why do all swimmers on a large number of swim teams from youth to elite use center snorkels religiously, every workout, while (at last count) a whopping 3 percent of Slowtwitchers use a center-mount snorkel?
These are commonly known as center- or center-mount snorkels, but I’ve taken to calling these symmetric snorkels because as you see the Powerbreather has “dual exhausts” that come out on each side. Jan Frodeno uses this (pictured just above), and the people who sell this were at the Hawaiian Ironman and report to me they sold about 60 of these at the expo. Don’t want to spend $100 or more? Fine, the
Finis , in the pic highest above, will set you back $18.