Yards or meters?

"The Mission Beach Plunge in Belmont Park opened in May 1925 as the Natatorium. The 60-foot (18 m)-by-175-foot (53 m) swimming pool was at the time the largest salt-water pool in the world, holding 400,000 gallons. The Plunge building enclosing the pool was styled after the Spanish Renaissance architecture of San Diego's Balboa Park structures. The changing rooms were featured in the Tom Cruise film Top Gun." --- Wiki My senior year in HS (Mission Bay HS '63) our team practised here (except on days of good surf when school in general was ignored by large masses of the male student body and even the cooler teachers.) One day Tom Warren (of future Ironman superstardom) showed up. He was our most distinguished alum and swimming for USC at the time. He joined us in what us younger Buccaneers pathetically referred to as a workout, which never amounted to even a half mile, with a turn every 20 yards. He challenged me to "choose the workout," and knowing he was a distance guy, I said let's go alternate 100yd swims, first one guy times one and then the other guys has to beat that time. You start out kinda slow and progress from there. I was a sprinter, so on my second go I went as hard as I could and posted a time I knew he couldn't beat. It was perhaps my greatest moment in HS swimming to beat Tom Warren in a workout, even if the whole workout lasted only about 10 minutes.

"The Mission Beach Plunge in Belmont Park opened in May 1925 as the Natatorium. The 60-foot (18 m)-by-175-foot (53 m) swimming pool was at the time the largest salt-water pool in the world, holding 400,000 gallons. The Plunge building enclosing the pool was styled after the Spanish Renaissance architecture of San Diego's Balboa Park structures. The changing rooms were featured in the Tom Cruise film Top Gun." --- Wiki My senior year in HS (Mission Bay HS '63) our team practised here (except on days of good surf when school in general was ignored by large masses of the male student body and even the cooler teachers.) One day Tom Warren (of future Ironman superstardom) showed up. He was our most distinguished alum and swimming for USC at the time. He joined us in what us younger Buccaneers pathetically referred to as a workout, which never amounted to even a half mile, with a turn every 20 yards. He challenged me to "choose the workout," and knowing he was a distance guy, I said let's go alternate 100yd swims, first one guy times one and then the other guys has to beat that time. You start out kinda slow and progress from there. I was a sprinter, so on my second go I went as hard as I could and posted a time I knew he couldn't beat. It was perhaps my greatest moment in HS swimming to beat Tom Warren in a workout, even if the whole workout lasted only about 10 minutes.