When someone asks how far I swim I always respond in yards or meters, and then--being an ex-runner--I convert to miles for them automatically (I could be a walking conversion table). Occasionally, someone will ask "so, how many laps is that?" At which point I seem to have the same awkward response "Uh, well, let's see, it's # yards per length, if a lap is two lengths, then that's ## per lap, which means I did..." And I give them a dirty look for making me do so much arithmetic in my head on the spot.
Being a former runner, I tend to get lapped a lot by folks who have been swimming a while... does that mean that I get "length-ed" twice as often?
When someone asks how far I swim I always respond in yards or meters, and then--being an ex-runner--I convert to miles for them automatically (I could be a walking conversion table). Occasionally, someone will ask "so, how many laps is that?" At which point I seem to have the same awkward response "Uh, well, let's see, it's # yards per length, if a lap is two lengths, then that's ## per lap, which means I did..." And I give them a dirty look for making me do so much arithmetic in my head on the spot.
Being a former runner, I tend to get lapped a lot by folks who have been swimming a while... does that mean that I get "length-ed" twice as often?
