I'm going to be getting into the pool tomorrow for the first time in my training (working toward a sprint tri in the spring) and am looking to start out on the right foot, or fin as it were.

Does anyone use this?: http://www.finisinc.com/products-tr-laptrack.shtml If you do, how do you like it? I tend to become counting-impaired when swimming anything over about 400 yards, so I was thinking something like this could come in handy. The only issue I can think of is that you would need to do open turns at the end of the pool with this rather than a flip turn.

What follows is an attempt to help each triathlete for the preparation, strategy, and "game-plan" of racing a "Pool-sprint" style race. We approach this in a format to answer real questions that we have been asked about these types of races.