Question About Distance

:worms:,it might not seem that way,but it is.I say it's down and back(2 lengths).

OH BOY or BOUY here we go again. Ask a swimmer & one length is a lap. Ask a round track person & a lap is one traverse of the track not two!! a dog laps his water bowl & a lap dance goes nowhere!!

Allen, You don't have to be in a distance event to get lapped! You must have seen my backstroke.

If you made one lap around the earth would it be one complete trip around, or two trips around and back ? Excluding jet stream

You must have seen my backstroke. Or 200 Fly :bolt:

Or 200 Fly :bolt: Now,you didn't lap me in the 200 fly(fortunately it was LCM)

If you are swimming a distance event with a faster swimmer in the heat,once they get 2 lengths ahead,they have lapped you.

Allen, You don't have to be in a distance event to get lapped!

:worms:,it might not seem that way,but it is.I say it's down and back(2 lengths). I'll bite. :argue: A lap and a length are the same thing!

A length is always one traverse from one end of the pool to the other. If we were runners, we'd consider a swimming lap to be two lengths as you start and end a lap at the same point (e.g., the same way you do on a track). However, we are not runners; we are swimmers and able to have the same word mean two different things. So, sometimes a swimming lap is a swimming length and sometimes a swimming lap is a runner's lap. Embrace both and always be inconsistent when talking with runners or tri-folks so that we don't let them peek too deeply behind the mystical swimmer's veil.