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.
That's why I said :worms: .A lap is either 1 or 2 lengths(I say 2,but others say 1.)
As I said on a previous thread on this issue,if someone talks about or asks about swimming in terms of laps they are,generally, not "one of us".By and large swimmers record distance in yards,meters, or for OW,miles.
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.
That's why I said :worms: .A lap is either 1 or 2 lengths(I say 2,but others say 1.)
As I said on a previous thread on this issue,if someone talks about or asks about swimming in terms of laps they are,generally, not "one of us".By and large swimmers record distance in yards,meters, or for OW,miles.
