I have been wondering about differences in pool lengths and competition issues between short course yards, and meters, and LCMs...
I train in a short course yard pool, but had my first meet in a 25 meter pool. I didn't notice too much of a difference, and it didn't bother me. I am interested in doing more meets, but there are only a couple of short course meets, and more long course meets in the area.
Is it suicide to train in a 25 yd pool then go to a long course 50 meter meet? has anyone done this before? I am interested in going for fun, and just to see the difference..
J.
Originally posted by DAP
, and all my previous swimming had been in 25 yard pools. The shock to me was that the 50 meter pool felt like it went on and on. It felt like more than double the usual distance, and it felt as if I would never reach the wall.
It is more than double the distance. 50 meters equates to about 55 yards. Add in the fact that the turn eliminates about 5 yards of swimming in yards, and you're ending up swimming 50 yards in one length of a long course pool instead of 45 yards in two lengths of a short course pool.
Interestingly, I had my first long course workout in nine months last weekend. Yeah, it hurts. But your body adjusts.
In 1991 US Swimming changed the spring nationals from short course to long course for the first time. I was scared I wouldn't do well because we didn't have a long course pool to train in in the winter, and that I'd die hard on the last 50 of my 100 ***. But I did lots of overtraining, as Matthias pointed out. Instead of sets of 100's, I did sets of 125s. Whether it was the training or the fact that my coach told me that some of the other guys in the race probably didn't have access to a short course pool (which I didn't really believe because they all attended universities with long course pools), but I swam best times in all three of my events.
I love racing long course. I hate training in long course.
Originally posted by DAP
, and all my previous swimming had been in 25 yard pools. The shock to me was that the 50 meter pool felt like it went on and on. It felt like more than double the usual distance, and it felt as if I would never reach the wall.
It is more than double the distance. 50 meters equates to about 55 yards. Add in the fact that the turn eliminates about 5 yards of swimming in yards, and you're ending up swimming 50 yards in one length of a long course pool instead of 45 yards in two lengths of a short course pool.
Interestingly, I had my first long course workout in nine months last weekend. Yeah, it hurts. But your body adjusts.
In 1991 US Swimming changed the spring nationals from short course to long course for the first time. I was scared I wouldn't do well because we didn't have a long course pool to train in in the winter, and that I'd die hard on the last 50 of my 100 ***. But I did lots of overtraining, as Matthias pointed out. Instead of sets of 100's, I did sets of 125s. Whether it was the training or the fact that my coach told me that some of the other guys in the race probably didn't have access to a short course pool (which I didn't really believe because they all attended universities with long course pools), but I swam best times in all three of my events.
I love racing long course. I hate training in long course.
