I'm still just a newbie to competitive swimming and wondered if other swimmers have experienced one training pool MUCH faster than another. And I mean SCY/SCM pools, not difference between SC and LC pools. There is one pool where I train, SCY, and I am uniformly 8-10% slower than in the pool where our team trains (also SCY). It's almost as though it is a SCM pool.
Nearby SCM pool, I have the expected times converting SCM to SCY. Now I've been a runner for over 35yrs. Never had one track SO much slower than another and consistently so. Temp in the "slow" SCY pool is consistenty lower (75-76degF) than the other two (79-81degF).
And yes, I have thought of actually measuring the slow SCY pool, community pool folks insist it is 25y!
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We have a "current" in our pool. It goes counterclockwise due to how the pool circulation system was designed. If you are in lanes 1 or 8 it is very noticeable and it affects me about 10% on my times between going one way and the other long course. Other pools I've been in have funny circulation that causes little eddys around side ladders that tend to pull you into the side of the pool. I haven't done any stats to see if any of these are correlated to which moon phase/tides or thought about if being in the northern hemisphere matters.
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We have a "current" in our pool. It goes counterclockwise due to how the pool circulation system was designed. If you are in lanes 1 or 8 it is very noticeable and it affects me about 10% on my times between going one way and the other long course. Other pools I've been in have funny circulation that causes little eddys around side ladders that tend to pull you into the side of the pool. I haven't done any stats to see if any of these are correlated to which moon phase/tides or thought about if being in the northern hemisphere matters.
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