Comments on: How far is a swimming lap?

By: This Week Last Year » The Beach to Beacon @ Run to Win

This Week Last Year » The Beach to Beacon @ Run to Win — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:37:44 +0000

[...] started the week off by offering 4 ways to determine the length of a pool in response to a reader question on the [...]

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:48:20 +0000

I was wondering how deep would the pool be? Is it related to the length? Or is there a general depth maintained in all pools.

Forgive my ignorance

Cheers!
Mani

By: hak

hak — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:34:44 +0000

There is no need to track distance if you’re just in the pool to fart around and swim for a bit to loosen up or burn off some steam.

However, if you’re training for a specific event (in my case triathlon), then distance becomes a (mostly) critical thing to know. Many of my pool sessions are broken down into specific distances for intervals, etc.

Having said that, I don’t get anal if it’s meters or yards. It’s close enough as far as I’m concerned.

hak

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:50:05 +0000

Measuring is not important to keep you fit. It only matters if you care what the actual distance that you are swimming is.

If you only track how long you have been in the pool, or if you don’t track anything, then it doesn’t really matter.

Personally, I like to record how far I have swam or ridden my bike or run in my training logs so that I can look back and see what works and what doesn’t as I prepare for races or try to recover from injuries.

By: fitline

fitline — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:15:32 +0000

what is the need of measuring the swimming pool for keeping us fit . i didnt got that