Do you swim lenghts, laps, 100s, 1000s, minutes or miles?

I would have no clue what you swam if you said that.  I typically talk about total distance and will say something like "Swam1950 meters today including some intervals".   Still confuse myself on lengths vs. laps.

i say x amount of meters

When I was at training, I would state "x" yards (being American and old school and still not wanting to convert to the Metric system ).

yards

Generally something like "2500m, ton of intervals." or similar.

Or if you're talking to a teammate that missed the morning workout and is doing a makeup swim, make up all kinds of horrific sets.

John

yards also.

I swim yards, but I tell my friends meters. F them, they don't know.

I use total yards for pool swims.

I use time for OWS. (I guess at the yards for the log, based on my pool swim time (min /100yards for long intervals).

If you said you did 25 today I'd think you swam 25inches  Actually coming from a swimming background it was always x yards----so I'd think WOW you did ONE WHOLE LAP!!!  Again coming from a swimming background I wouldn't even bother with the "with a ton of intervals" or anything like that---I would ASSume there were sets of intervals in a swim workout UNLESS you said "I did a 25 min straight swim."

I always say total distance.  Sometimes I throw in specifics on the sets if I think they will be impressed.

I thought a lap was out and back? Is a lap just out?

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.

Yards (or meters).

Telling laps or lengths doesn't mean anything without some knowledge of the pool.  Is it 20yrd pool, 25, 50, OWS?

I swam ONE length......  It is called the English Channel.  OR, I did 10,000 laps in my turtle pool.


I guess, if I were to bet on a translation.  If someone said I swam 25.  I would assume 2500 yards.

Edited by Kido 2010-09-28 11:06 AM

Yep - A "lap" is up and back (2 "lengths").

I say yards or miles - depends on the person I am talking to.

If someone said "I swam 25 today"... I'd think yards.



Edited by RockTractor 2010-09-28 11:04 AM

I try to avoid swimming at all, but when I do, and when I care enough to share... I usually say total distance: "I swam 1750 today"

Meters or yards depends on where I'm swimming, and I don't separate the two. I log everything by time, though.

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.

I always express it in Leagues....that way no one has any idea how far I swam...including me.

yeah... you swim long enough and you call "lengths" "laps" instead.

besides, swimmers traditional focus on yardage, and talk in those terms, too.

for me, it's always yards, unless i happen to be in a meter pool.

today's workout is 2300 yds.

Yeah, that' is what I swam this morning.  I generally will tell someone in yards but there is a buddy of mine who swims at the same pool and we see each other at work and he will often say "swam 45 this morning" (for 4500 yda) as we pass in the hall.  So if I say "25" he knows I mean 2500.

I guess it's like all things in life, you need to know you audience. 

~Mike

Edited by Rogillio 2010-09-28 11:18 AM

ROTFLMAO!

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Edited by SHLD2005 2010-09-28 11:59 AM

Guess I'm the oddball here.

I talk about my swims in miles.  For a long time I'd do 1.5 miles a day, sometimes 6 days a week.  I'm doing a lot less swimming lately, due to more biking, my 'Y membership running out for awhile and some work lately that's killed my workout time.

I don't like to even get in the pool if I don't think I have enough time for a mile, and all my sessions end in nice round quarter mile/400m increments except for when something happens in the pool or a storm brews up.  One day recently they kicked me out at 1250 meters for lightening.  Man that peeved me off!  One lap earlier and everything would be nice and round.  I swam one less lap the next day to balance it out and mark my miles up on the chart. 

So generally I discuss miles or X*100 meters.

-eric