irontritoe - 2010-09-29 2:21 PM
kath9dav - 2010-09-28 12:13 PM
SHLD2005 - 2010-09-28 11:02 AM
Rogillio - 2010-09-28 11:21 AM
Side note at no extra cost: I've noticed people definition of a "lap" varies. Swimmers say a lap is one lenght of the pool. I have always thought of a lap as one out and back....kinda like on circuit or loop on the track.
This is a 'pet peeve' of mine... A lap is two lengths of the pool - i.e. there and back. A length is just that, a length, one way.
I guess to put a kink in it, are you swimming 25 yrds/ meters, or 50? haha.
Well, you've never been to a swim meet then. A 200 is 8 laps, not 4 laps. A 500 is 20 not 10, 1000 is 40, etc. I went to 32 swim meets last year and never heard the 1650 referred to as 33 laps. Also, if a lap is 2 lengths, why do lap counting boards for distance events count in increments of 1 per lap? Sorry to burst your pet peeve bubble.
What swim meets did you attend? 32 meets? With all due respect, you or the parents or coaches are incorrect. Take it from a swimmer of 30+ years, college swimmer, and former college coach.
Sorry, but all those events are, in fact, swum in the lengths you listed in a SCY pool. A swimming mile, a 1650, is 66 lengths. When you get "lapped" in swimming, the faster swimmer has gone down and back and passed you. The lane counters for distance events do correspond to the # of lengths you have to swim. A 500 is 20 lengths. The counter at the opposite end from the blocks shows 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and the orange square
(for last LENGTH
). A LCM meter 1500
(30 lengths
) would show odd #'s from 1 to 27 and then the orange square again.
As to the OP's question, usually total yardage or meters. Usually convert everything to yards for training log. Today I swam 2000yds recovery from 70.3 Augusta.
No one can ever agree on this, even people with tons of experience. I should give up trying to convince the other side and vice versa.