This Week Last Year ยป The Beach to Beacon

Topics this week last year were dominated by the Beach to Beacon. I started the week off by offering 4 ways to determine the length of a pool in response to a reader question on the matter. Maine Running Company hosted a talk by John L Parker, Jr. where he discussed...

This Week Last Year: Swimming

This week last year was filled mostly with racing news, and what wasn’t racing was related in some way to swimming. I offered 9 methods for counting laps in the pool. I usually use the buoys on the lane dividers. A revolutionary in the shotput in the early 50s,...

How far is a swimming lap?

One reader found this site by searching Yahoo for how far is a swimming lap. There are a few different ways to determine the distance from one end of the pool to another, which will gives you the length of the pool. Multiply the length by two and you will have the...

9 ways to count laps while swimming

Photo by gabyuSwimming laps at the pool is a great workout, but how do you track how far you have gone? Especially when swimming laps continuously without breaks, it can become very easy to forget which lap that you are on and to get your count messed up. A lap in a...

Lap Swimming Rules

There are different rules that should be followed when swimming in a public pool. These rules can be a little different depending upon how many other people are sharing your lane with you, and most of these can usually be negotatiated simply by asking the others in...