lap counting

DaKitty said:

A mile in a 25 yard pool is 1650 Yards. Up one side (25Y) and back down (total 50 yards) is what I
count as one lap. 33 of those make up 1650.

It's not actually a mile, you know. A mile is 1760 yards.

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In a 50-Meter pool, I still count up and down as one lap (it's very easy when a lap is 100m), so a
1500m (also 1 mile) would have been 15 laps.

Well, it doesn't work so well, when you are working in an oxygen debt situation. The longer the
sequence, the more likely an error. Having intermediate reset points seems to help the
concentration.

martin

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Martin W. Smith said:

DaKitty said:

A mile in a 25 yard pool is 1650 Yards. Up one side (25Y) and back down (total 50 yards) is
what I count as one lap. 33 of those make up 1650.

It's not actually a mile, you know. A mile is 1760 yards.

but about 1630m, so perhaps kitty was thinking about a metric pool.

No, it's a yard pool. We're getting ready for a meet that has a SCM 1500M event in it, which many
people around here nicknamed a "Mile", especially since we often have actual Mile ocean swims.

1500m is 1648.3 Yards, so half of the team was over in a meter pool, and doing the 1500M, and the
other half that was in the Yard pool did the 1650 Yards.

our coach makes us pay attention to where in the workout we are (for those of us who aren't fast
enough to keep up with the faster people) The faster swimmers do it on cue from the coach.

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Yes, I do recall them to be very expensive. I don't know what it is, but

I

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hate to count laps. I could see using a finger lap counter now and again just to see how far you
go in a certain time. Just to check up on your progress and see if you can get you distance up in
the hour swim.

Enjoy, Curt

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> I've read that people don't like wearing the finger thing. I was
imagining
> a device that would set up at the end of the lane and have a display

big

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> enough to be visible (perhaps under water), and it'd sense your

touches.

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It is hard to believe there isn't such a thing. I could have sworn I

saw

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something like that a while back, but I can't find it anymore.

Curt

I've seen something like that to accompany the Colorado timing system,

but

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now you're talking very expensive stuff.

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DaKitty said:

A mile in a 25 yard pool is 1650 Yards. Up one side (25Y) and back down (total 50 yards) is what
I count as one lap. 33 of those make up 1650.

It's not actually a mile, you know. A mile is 1760 yards.

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In a 50-Meter pool, I still count up and down as one lap (it's very easy when a lap is 100m), so
a 1500m (also 1 mile) would have been 15 laps.

Well, it doesn't work so well, when you are working in an oxygen debt situation. The longer the
sequence, the more likely an error. Having intermediate reset points seems to help the
concentration.

martin

Very true. Although, Just Monday, after a 200Y workout I was able to swim a 1650, 33 laps, flipturns
and all, and managed to count it right, broken into parts, like I mentioned in my earlier post.

What I was explaining in my earlier post is how one can break down the 10 or 15 or 20 laps into
shorter segments.

Notice (in my earlier post) I didn't count them 1,2,3,4,5,.......,31,32,33, but once I figured out
how many laps I need to do total (33), I broke them down into smaller pieces. Sets of 5 laps, 10
laps. 1, 2, 3, 4 laps...

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DaKitty said:

A mile in a 25 yard pool is 1650 Yards. Up one side (25Y) and back down (total 50 yards) is what
I count as one lap. 33 of those make up 1650.

It's not actually a mile, you know. A mile is 1760 yards.

Whatever. The coach wanted us to swim a 1650Yards, and the people who were in a metric pool swam
1500M, it's training for the upcoming SCM meet that has a 1500M event, and people 'affectionately'
nicknamed it a Mile. When a coach tells me to swim 1650Y I swim 1650Yards, and if he wants to
nickname it a "Mile swim", I'm not gonna get in an argument with him about how long the mile
*really* is.

I'm sure when I swim a "mile" in the ocean tomorrow they will have a mile measured more correctly,
and with the way I'll swim around the buoys, I'll end us swimming more than a mile.

I'm not going for a world record so couple of hundred yards one way or another, in training, doesn't
matter much to me.

As for being exact, I'm a Civil Engineer and a Land Surveyor, I actually get called on (with an USMS
official) to certify pool lengths, I *kind of* know how long a mile is, you know.

If you want to be really really exact when you swim in circles in training, you're swimming more
than a straight length of the pool anyway, did you ever account for that, and for dipping under
water during the flipturns, that too adds to your distance.

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I have stoppped counting laps as I swim within a time frame and get my 100 laps in. It makes for an
easier swim-less stressful

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New swimmer. Have been using my running watch to count laps, but that

takes

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stopping, or at least wrecking your glide. I can't possibly keep a lap count correctly in my head
through a long workout when I'm also counting stokes, focusing on this or that stroke
improvement, etc...

What do you do?

Do you think there's a market for a high-tech device of some sort to do it for you?

Mark