Pool distance question

RE: Pool distance question

FindingMyInnerFish — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:54:38 GMT

Well, I did 2600 easy (taper mode) today and darn, didn't think to check my time at 1650. 1800 was 43:39, not pushing hard at all, although occasionally picked up on a lap here and there. Getting closer to The Event! Excited.. nervous!

RE: Pool distance question

Muppet — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:21:40 GMT

maybe it all has to do with the length of the pool. for the pool mile, 1500 is 30 lengths LCM, 60 lengths SCM. a 1650y is 66 lengths. i guess someone thought doing 70 was 4 too many. or maybe they miscounted (novel idea) and just said "screw it, 1650 it is." :duel:

RE: Pool distance question

Former Member — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:45:10 GMT

25 m is nearly 82.5 feet 50 m aprox 165 feet 100 m nearly 110 yards not quite.

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Former Member — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:37:33 GMT

According to my conversion program 1600 meters is .99 of a mile. A meter is roughly 39" so a yard and a meter are fairly comparable.

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Former Member — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:56:04 GMT

A mile is always going to be 1760 yards, 1600m is close to a mile. 1650 yards is the distance in yard that compares to a 1500m. 1800 yards is 40 yards longer than a mile. Being in Canada we stiill have a few yards pools but we now have mostly meters pools. All new pools are meter pools. I am not sure but most pools in the USA are yards pools. The school kids here do not know what yard, feet, inches or miles are, they are usuing the metric system of measurement. The USA gallon is one fifth smaller than the imperial gallon which we no longer use in Canada we use litres when we fill our gas tanks and it takes 3.8 litres to make a US gallon and 4.5 litres to make a Canadian gallon.

RE: Pool distance question

Allen Stark — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:51:55 GMT

A meter is very nearly 1.1 yard,so 1600M is nearly 1760 yd. as was noted.I have wondered why we do 1500M instead of 1600M as our longest pool race.Our progression is 100,200,400,800,1500. It makes even less sense in track as 4 laps is 1600M and their progression is 400(1 lap)800(2 laps) and 1500.

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Betsy — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:40:36 GMT

1650 yards is the equivalent of 1500 meters, the international distance.

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Former Member — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:47:13 GMT

The mile in open water is 1760 yard or 5280 feet. That 1650 is a nothing measurement, it is used when trying to equate to 1500 meters. We used it in Olympic trials once that I know of in Canada. Open water - 1 nautical mile = 2 025.37183 yards. I hate the nautical mile, the Cross on the hill in Port Alfred is 1 Nautical mile to the finish line. My boatman put up a sign it said sprint as I was infront of the cross. The tide was going out and the sprint took well over one hour.

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Former Member — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:22:08 GMT

Allen the reason is there was really never meant to be a mile. It was invented by some brit. Maybe his name was Foot. He was probably six feet tall, measured by the length of his foot. He divided the foot by twelve and found the segments and named them inches. He took a large step and found that it was three feet long. He then called that a yard. He stepped off the Canadian Foot Ball field and found out that it was a 110 large steps, that makes a football field in Canada is 110 yards long nearly 100mts long. He went to Bufallo and found out that the footbal field there is only 100 yards or 300 big steps. Have a look here en.wikipedia.org/.../Foot_(unit_of_length)

RE: Pool distance question

FindingMyInnerFish — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:18:36 GMT

Thanks for the informative replies! All very helpful! So, basically either 1760 yds. or 1600m can almost equally be used as a mile measure. But do they use 1650 to measure open water miles or 1760? The Brit who used his feet to measure distance might have had a problem when working with distance across water unless he could walk on water, but the only guy I know of who has that ability wasn't born in Britain, as I recall. :)

RE: Pool distance question

knelson — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:09:56 GMT

Here's a little trick some of you might not know about: Google does unit conversions. Just type in "1800 yards to miles" and it will return that 1800 yards = 1.0227 miles. You could also ask what 1600 meters is in yards or miles. I use this feature all the time for various conversions. How did we ever live without Google?