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Originally posted by Conniekat8 is that meters or yards? One mile has 5280 feet, divide that by 3 and get yards, 1760 if you want to be exact. Many people 'affetionatlely' call the 1500 meter distance a mile, and it most closely resembles n actual distance of 1650 yards. Then to complicate things more, you might want to get into a conversion between feet and meters... Then you can try and account for a difference between a nautical mile and a land mile... How exact do you want to be??? ;) Stated like a true engineer!:rolleyes:

Figure that 1500 meters is about a mile or 1650 yards ...

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I can't believe you guys got this sowrong! A mile is 1760 yards or (very, very close to) 1600 meters. (A meter is about 10 percent longer than a yard.) That means that in a 25 yard pool, you have to swim 72 lengths (actually, 1800 yards, or 40 yards more than a mile); in a 25 meter pool, you have to swim 64 lengths; in a 50 meter pool, you have to swim 32 lengths. Whatever your yardage is, divide it by 1760 to determine the mile count. 3200 yards = 1.82 miles. Whatever your meters are, divide this by 1600 to determine the mile count. 3200 meters = 2 miles. Hope this helps.

Originally posted by nkace 66 laps is a mile? Actually, it's what's sometimes called a "metric mile" (since 1500m is the round metric distance that's closest to a mile). A real mile would be approximately 70 lengths of a 25y pool.