I've spent a little time looking over this site
to find out how much I don't know about the
current Masters Swimming scene.
And also, what I might be able to
do to become competitive.
Something quite new seems to be races
that are only one-length of a short-course pool.
25 Yards and 25 Meters.
Where is the organization going with that ?
Will they be considered
for Top-Ten rankings ?
How did it get started ?
Old-N-Slow
So I math'd this out, just because 35 yards seemed so oddly specific that there had to be some logic for it to be on several different bases. 35 yards is 32 meters (or, 32.004 if you want to be extra precise), which divides a 1600m swim right nicely into 50 lengths. So if for some reason you want to swim a pool mile, there you are.
Oh yeah...I always figured that they made them at some useful divisor length. I'm mean using those pools for training military troops...swim tests for certain qualifications, or acceptance into a certain program requires a swim of a specific distance. Otherwise they could have made them something really odd length that doesn't multiply nicely...like 31 yards, 7.5 inches, or whatever, for example.
Dan
So I math'd this out, just because 35 yards seemed so oddly specific that there had to be some logic for it to be on several different bases. 35 yards is 32 meters (or, 32.004 if you want to be extra precise), which divides a 1600m swim right nicely into 50 lengths. So if for some reason you want to swim a pool mile, there you are.
Oh yeah...I always figured that they made them at some useful divisor length. I'm mean using those pools for training military troops...swim tests for certain qualifications, or acceptance into a certain program requires a swim of a specific distance. Otherwise they could have made them something really odd length that doesn't multiply nicely...like 31 yards, 7.5 inches, or whatever, for example.
Dan
