Yesterday I swam in a pool I had never been to before. The pool is 30.5 meters (33.3 yards) long X 20 yards wide. Starting blocks were on the 20 yards.
Why would a pool be built at 30.5 meters? Would you change your workout to accommodate this unusual distance?
My normal 4000 meter workout, turned into 4880 meters. I would like to continue to use this pool,however I will have to put in some serious thinking into my workouts.
you can set an american and/or national record in a 55yd pool! (because its a hair longer that 50m).
This may have been true at one time, but it isn't now. The USA Swimming rulebook states:
Dimensional Tolerance: Against the required length, a tolerance of plus (+) 0.03 meters (1 and 3/16ths of an inch) in a vertical plane extending 0.3 meters (12 inches) above and 0.8 meters (2 feet, 7½ inches) below the surface of the water at all points of both
end walls.
55 yards is 50.292 meters, so it's way over the positive allowed tolerance of 0.03 meters.
you can set an american and/or national record in a 55yd pool! (because its a hair longer that 50m).
This may have been true at one time, but it isn't now. The USA Swimming rulebook states:
Dimensional Tolerance: Against the required length, a tolerance of plus (+) 0.03 meters (1 and 3/16ths of an inch) in a vertical plane extending 0.3 meters (12 inches) above and 0.8 meters (2 feet, 7½ inches) below the surface of the water at all points of both
end walls.
55 yards is 50.292 meters, so it's way over the positive allowed tolerance of 0.03 meters.
