I thought of this topic while walking back to my car after practice on Friday. Can you think of anything that (possibly) makes your pool or its setting unique? Here's my example: there's a fee for parking on campus at the U of Washington, so I park on the street in neighborhood just off campus when I swim there. The walk between the car and the pool involves crossing a drawbridge, so sometimes after practice we are delayed for a few minutes while the drawbridge is up!
2 to 4 seconds at 70% speeds.
The fun part of the 20 yard pool is going under 10 seconds in a 20. Since my mind still equates one length with 25 yards, I come away thinking "I went under 10 seconds from a push". I haven't bothered to correct my mind.
Mike,
I belong to a health club that has an indoor 20 meter pool that I love for sprint workouts. Perfect length for racing your training partner 10 X 20 on the 1:00. We also time each other (starting the watch when the head goes under water). Hard as I try, I haven't been able to go under 10 seconds. My best recently was 10.25. I also love getting my heart rate up without any lactates going 10 X 20 fly on :30.
I'm very spoiled. The club is 2 miles from my house and also has an outdoor 25 meter pool that is kept open all year. Excellent sight seeing in the summer.
Also, 2 miles from my house is a high school pool where my training partner is the coach and 4-5 of us have the pool to ourselves at the noon hour. We sometimes set up the timing system with the pads on the side walls and time our breakouts to 42'. Big fun.
And in the summer I have access to a deep, crystal clear 50 meter pool 2.5 miles from my house where a group of masters swim from 11:30 to 1:00. I've never had to swim with more than one other person in my lane.
I count my blessings every day.
Rich
2 to 4 seconds at 70% speeds.
The fun part of the 20 yard pool is going under 10 seconds in a 20. Since my mind still equates one length with 25 yards, I come away thinking "I went under 10 seconds from a push". I haven't bothered to correct my mind.
Mike,
I belong to a health club that has an indoor 20 meter pool that I love for sprint workouts. Perfect length for racing your training partner 10 X 20 on the 1:00. We also time each other (starting the watch when the head goes under water). Hard as I try, I haven't been able to go under 10 seconds. My best recently was 10.25. I also love getting my heart rate up without any lactates going 10 X 20 fly on :30.
I'm very spoiled. The club is 2 miles from my house and also has an outdoor 25 meter pool that is kept open all year. Excellent sight seeing in the summer.
Also, 2 miles from my house is a high school pool where my training partner is the coach and 4-5 of us have the pool to ourselves at the noon hour. We sometimes set up the timing system with the pads on the side walls and time our breakouts to 42'. Big fun.
And in the summer I have access to a deep, crystal clear 50 meter pool 2.5 miles from my house where a group of masters swim from 11:30 to 1:00. I've never had to swim with more than one other person in my lane.
I count my blessings every day.
Rich
