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2010-09-29 3:02 PM
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Subject: RE: Do you swim lenghts, laps, 100s, 1000s, minutes or miles?
for a 25 yd (SCY) pool:

1 length = 25 yards
1 lap = 50 yards

2010-09-29 4:42 PM
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irontritoe - 2010-09-29 2:21 PM
kath9dav - 2010-09-28 12:13 PM
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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.


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2010-09-29 4:47 PM
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Hilarious.  An internet fight on what a "lap" is.  Tongue out
2010-09-29 7:37 PM
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I do total yards.

I also count my sets in 25s rather than lengths (so if I'm swimming a 200 I keep track of where I am by  counting 25, 50, 75, 100, etc, instead of counting up to 8).

I always think of a lap as one length of the pool but see both sides of the argument and tend to use lap and length interchangably, sometimes I say one and sometimes the other.

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sorry about that, double post


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2010-09-29 9:39 PM
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Distance in yards.

Length = 1 time down the pool.
Lap = Running once around the pool and getting kicked out by the lifeguard.

Anyone have one of those endless pools they advertise on here?  Can you measure distance with those?  Just curious.

2010-09-29 9:47 PM
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2010-09-30 6:32 AM
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juneapple - 2010-09-29 9:39 PM Distance in yards.

Length = 1 time down the pool.
Lap = Running once around the pool and getting kicked out by the lifeguard.

Anyone have one of those endless pools they advertise on here?  Can you measure distance with those?  Just curious.


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2010-09-30 8:03 AM
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When I swim I lose track of the total after about 3 laps (you decide what I mean by that).  So when asked, I just just say, "I swam this morning" (unless I swam in the afternoon).
2010-09-30 11:27 AM
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If anyone ever asks, I always say XX meters.  I have had people ask me "how many laps is that?" - and I use the 25 meters (down but not back) rule to define a lap.  So...100 meters = 4 laps.
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laps don't exist in swimming. its not a track. lengths would be the correct term. only people I have met who use laps to measure a swim are those who don't actually swim....

2010-09-30 4:13 PM
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jONBRIDGE - 2010-09-30 4:01 PM laps don't exist in swimming. its not a track. lengths would be the correct term. only people I have met who use laps to measure a swim are those who don't actually swim....


 I dunno, a lap in swimming means two lengths - up and back again.  It doesn't seem that weird to me.  I swim a bunch and I've been known to say things like "You guys are boring, imma go swim some laps now!" and gallivant off.  Though if you ask me precisely how far, I tell you how many yards.  :p

I think I'll start going with fathoms though, just to throw people off.  I feel sorry for the length of measurement, anyway.  It never gets used.

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2010-09-30 4:26 PM
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And what would be the meaning of a "lap pool" then?

jONBRIDGE - 2010-09-30 4:01 PM laps don't exist in swimming. its not a track. lengths would be the correct term. only people I have met who use laps to measure a swim are those who don't actually swim....

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