Swim Training and yards v. meters in my logs

Since you have a mix of home vs gym pool episodes, it would be hard for us to go back into the database to apply changes, here is what you can do though:

Go back into your 'gym' swims, 'edit todays log' for every gym swim day you need to correct and just simply change the pace dropdown from 'Min/100Yards' to 'Min/100Meters' for each workouts.  Click 'calc' to apply the corrected pace and 'save' each it.  That should update all of those gym swim workouts.

When you log, you will have to make sure you specify yards or meters everytime in the 'pace' dropdown since you are using a mix.

When that is done, all pace 'averages' in reports/graphs will be in the units set in your control panel.  I would now suggest using the 'Meters' unit in the control panel since you do most of your swimming with the Meters at the gym.  Whatever unit IS set, the pace dropdown defaults to that in the logging screen and will be the conversion for pace reports.  Whenever you do a infrequent home swim, you just have to make sure when you are adding that workout, that you select the 'Min/100Yards' pace dropdown before saving it.

Tag, I had the same issue about a year ago.  Found out my 'home' pool was M, not yards.  Very similar story...I always thought it was yards, but then some kid ralphed in the pool, so I went outside (my LTF has 4 pools to choose from in the summer) to a 2ndary pool.  I started lapping about 3 seconds faster per '25', and wondered WTF? 

Anyway, I asked the question way back when, and the answer is the same.  I chose to leave all my swims in yards and the display in yards, so that I get consistent reporting....even though every single swim I do is in a Meter pool.

Now...I just take my swim (if it's 2000m) and multiply by 1.098 to get the distance in yards.  Wait, that's too hard, I just add 10%.  So for, err, forever, I'll be blogging in yards but swimming in meters....my 2000m swim would be blogged as 2200 yds.  A little mental gymnastics, but not too bad.

Edit:  the best part of the whole deal is that you thought you were going slower in the M pool, but you were covering more ground.  Instant speed gain!!!  Cool....

Regardless of whether you have your control panel set as yard or meters for the reports, when you add a swim, you can change the units for that day 'independantly' by just selecting the appropriate pace units when you are logging...

Setting the log control panel for a particlular unit only effects the reports and in the logging screen, what unit is shown first by default in the pace dropdown...but you can change it anytime you log without resetting your control panel value... 

I'd like to offer my March logs as an example of what Ron is talking about.  Rick, you are working too hard! 

My regular pool is 50m x 25yd (Olympic size), and usually I swim LCM, but some days there's a swim meet or I go in the evening when the kids are in swim team practice and the lane lines have been changed so the pool is SCY.  Plus in March I was traveling in Boston for a week and had two swims in an 18m pool (weird, I know, but that's actually pretty big for a hotel pool) and one at MIT in the SCY pool.  If you look at March using the monthly calendar. you'll see that the individual days are marked as Y or M, but my monthly total is all converted into M, which is my preference.

Pace shows up based on the unit, but that is better so you can keep track if you swim on a set interval, vs. timing each swim and rest separately.  You can just figure that you'll be about 10% faster in the yard pool than in the meter pool.  USASwimming says that 100LCM meters should be about 15sec longer than 100SCY, since it's about 10% longer AND only one turn/push off the wall.  That turns out to be true for me.