Yuck! No matter how hard I try to avoid it I can't keep from drinking pool water when I breath during freestyle. I breath on both sides although I'm much more natural at breathing on the left side (I'm right handed). Is it common for anyone else to drink pool water? How can I avoid this during salt water swims? I try to focus on rotating my body for each arm pull; am I not rotating enough?
Also, how many yards are in a mile? How many laps in a mile? If you push off the wall hard and glide for a three or four body lengths, do you subtract this distance when calculating yardage?
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Originally posted by swimr4life
OK! I know this is off the topic of the thread but since we are discussing the mile.... I hope someone can answer this for me. Why do we swim a 1650 for a "mile" since a mile is really 1760 yds? Why don't we do a 1750? (only 10 yds short of a true mile?)
Just wondering!!
'Cause "Mile" in swim meets is more of a pet name for the event of 1650 yards, or 1500 meters, rather than indicative of the exact distance. If you look at the meet form, they never label it as a "mile". It's us swimmers that like to call it a mile, because it's close to a mile. Swimming a "mile" can sound a tad more impressive than swimming a 1650, in a social conversation.
It's a colloquialisim.
Just like the meaning of a "lap" can be a swimming related colloquialisim.
1650 yards is the closest even distance to the 1500 meters.
In ocean races, you're more likely to encounter the 'real' mile, the 1760 Yards.
Originally posted by swimr4life
OK! I know this is off the topic of the thread but since we are discussing the mile.... I hope someone can answer this for me. Why do we swim a 1650 for a "mile" since a mile is really 1760 yds? Why don't we do a 1750? (only 10 yds short of a true mile?)
Just wondering!!
'Cause "Mile" in swim meets is more of a pet name for the event of 1650 yards, or 1500 meters, rather than indicative of the exact distance. If you look at the meet form, they never label it as a "mile". It's us swimmers that like to call it a mile, because it's close to a mile. Swimming a "mile" can sound a tad more impressive than swimming a 1650, in a social conversation.
It's a colloquialisim.
Just like the meaning of a "lap" can be a swimming related colloquialisim.
1650 yards is the closest even distance to the 1500 meters.
In ocean races, you're more likely to encounter the 'real' mile, the 1760 Yards.
