when swimming’s so easy you start doing bonus quests now

notalostcausejustyet:

churrotowns:

when swimming’s so easy you start doing bonus quests now

This is a superb example of why she’s so dominant though. Besides the fact that she works her ass of to be, because she does. Economy of movement is a big damned deal in endurance sports. Ledecky is far and away the best distance swimmer in the world because of how precise her movement is. There is zero wasted motion and nothing shows that more clearly than this.