Your Favorite Course

I am surprised at the results so far.LCM is in the lead:cheerleader::cheerleader:I guess this just shows forumites are an especially enlightened group:banana: Have to say although it's way tougher especially for a novice I like the LCM.

What about weird courses? I've swum in a 35 yard pool before.

What about weird courses? I've swum in a 35 yard pool before. The pool I grew up in was 33.3M long. Hornchurch Swimming Pool, Harrow Lodge Park. It's been modernised now. It never looked quite so state of the art but it was a great pool.

I wish I had a 50M pool train in. With short course yards it's come to the point where 3/5 of the race is underwater in backstroke and butterfly. I think they should cut it back to 10 or 8.5 yards underwater. It doesn't make sense to me that they make it 15 meters in LC and 15 yards in a course less than 1/2 as long. In the 35 yard pool you always had dumb races like a 105 yard free, or 280 yard IM.

the only pools that i have used to practice in have been SCY and SCM. i would have to prefer the SCY just because i am more used to it than SCM.

What about weird courses? I've swum in a 35 yard pool before. George (Geochuck) will probably know which pool I'm talking about. The Lido pool at the Gezirah Club in Cairo, Egypt (built during the British occupation 1935), was 33 1/3 yards. I can't remember the width's measurement but back when I used to swim (early 60's) and did the freestyle turn on a back somersault, the width was a push, one stroke (half a cycle), turn on your back and flip and push off and repeat.

I the pool I used to swim in in Tampa was 33M. I always hated it because the counting in three is bad, but there's no way to do 50s or any distance not ending in 00. :notworking: