Subject: RE: Different sizes of pools?Just ask to see the blueprints, or get out your tape measure. When I signed up for my YMCA membership, they claimed one of the local pools (multiple facility menbership is a great feature of the Y ) had a 25M pool. I asked to see the blueprints, and discovered 25yds instead. fine either way, but definitely good to know. Some pools are not even 25 yds when they claim to be. One pool lists a mile as 35 laps (pretty close ) another at 33 laps (means it's slightly longer but not quite 25 m ). Nothing like training in a yd pool and thinking it is meters. Kind of deflating when you see your time after a race. Then again, training in meters and thinking it's yds would feel pretty good come race day.
To add confusion, some 50M pools are 25 yds across. When split in 2 lengthwise by a bulkhead, one side is often 25M, the other 25 Yds. Gotta know which side you are on. |