As a winter resident of NE Ft. Lauderdale, FL I have a membership at the Pompano Beach municipal pools. I usually swim at the main aquatics center which is usually set up for 25 SCM, occasionally 50 LCM. The other day I went to swim at the Pompano’s other pool facility, Houston/Sworn Aquatic Center. It was my first time at that pool. Thinking it was 25m, after just a couple laps, and looking at the pace clock, I realized that it’s 25 SCY. Anyway, that got me thinking about the different pools I’ve swam in, and their various sizes. That is, pools that are lined, and set up for lap swimming. What odd-size pool have you swam in?
20 yards — Oliver Bath House, Pitt, PA.
25 yards — numerous
25 meters — numerous
100 ft (33.33 yards) — Deep Eddy Pool, Austin, TX.
35 yards — Naval Station Newport, RI (two indoor pools now razed), and at Fort Meade, MD (outdoor, converted to 25m using Jersey barriers.)
50 yard — Purdue Univ Rec Center, and NAS Jacksonville, FL
50 meter — numerous (Including the Olympic pool in Sydney, Australia where I just narrowly missed learning the hard way that “circle swimming in Australia is in the opposite direction than in North America.)
Dan
