How many laps do you swim on a average workout? I ask because of the lap counter questions. I used to count laps but that was when I was swimming 18 laps or a 1/4 mile I stopped because it got to be a hassle and really did not care..Exercise is what it is but got to wonder how far I do swim.. I try to swim 30 to 45 minutes a day.. 36 laps to about 50 laps I guess. And a lap I am counting is once across 25 meters or 75 feet depending on the pool. Or is that a lenght across..? I am a lightweight compared to some as I know some swimmers training for Olympics measure their distance in thousands of yards a day. or 1760 yards a mile. thats..71 laps a mile 36 laps a 1/2 mile 18 laps a 1/4 mile give a bit.. Now meters unless I'm wrong its about 1624 meters a mile, or 65 laps a mile or 33 laps a half mile or 16 laps a 1/4 mile in a 25 meter pool rounded off.
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Originally posted by Leonard Jansen
From dictionary.com:
lap:
Sports. To get ahead of (an opponent) in a race by one or more complete circuits of the course, as in running, or by two or more lengths of pool in swimming.
By implication, a lap is two lengths.
The definition you've quoted is for the verb form. In that sense, it relates to the meaning of overlapping where one part extends passed another, as in a lap joint. A swimmer has to be more than two laps ahead of another in order the pass or lap them.
More importantly, the same entry of lap at Dictionary.com (as already been cited) expicitly defines a lap in a swimming pool as two lengths:
n.2.b. One complete length of a straight course, as of a swimming pool.
An explicit definition is more accurate than an inference.
Originally posted by Leonard Jansen
From dictionary.com:
lap:
Sports. To get ahead of (an opponent) in a race by one or more complete circuits of the course, as in running, or by two or more lengths of pool in swimming.
By implication, a lap is two lengths.
The definition you've quoted is for the verb form. In that sense, it relates to the meaning of overlapping where one part extends passed another, as in a lap joint. A swimmer has to be more than two laps ahead of another in order the pass or lap them.
More importantly, the same entry of lap at Dictionary.com (as already been cited) expicitly defines a lap in a swimming pool as two lengths:
n.2.b. One complete length of a straight course, as of a swimming pool.
An explicit definition is more accurate than an inference.
