Question about swimming?
I have swam some lately, and was wondering how many laps equal a mile? What distance (equivlent to miles) does a 1500 in swimming equal?
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Most pools are either 25 yards or 25 meters long. In America, the best bet is you're swimming in a 25 yard pool. A mile is 5280 feet or 1760 yards, so you would need to swim 35 laps and 10 yards more to go exactly a mile.Swimming a 1500 is just short of swimming a mile.
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If you are swimming in a 25 meter pool, it is 72 laps.If you are swimming in a Olympic-sized pool (50 meters), it is 36 laps.
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These measurements are relative and the estimates for each type of pool that you'll commonly swim in. The most common types of pools are obviously 25 yard and 50 meter but just go along with those.If you need any mathematical conversions done you can send me a message via my profile but your average outdoor pool can be confusing since they're smaller and aren't exactly built for handling flip turns.
Note that a length is from one wall to the opposite wall and one lap is there and back.
Here's the measurements:
25 yard pool: 72 lenghts (36 laps)
25 meter pool: 66 laps (33 laps)
50 yard pool: 36 lenghts (18 laps)
50 meter pool: 33 lenghts (16.5 laps)
A 1500 in swimming is just under a mile. A 1500 is about 15/16 of a mile so it's close but not exactly a mile. Also, the distances above are relative for swimming. The yard measurement actually comes out to 70.4 lenghts but to ensure proper swimming distance swimmers will swim an extra 1.6.
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For all intents, 1600m is just about one mile (it's about 10m short). 1600m would be 32 laps (64 lengths) in a short course meter pool, or 16 laps (32 lengths) in a long course pool.In swimming speak, the 1500m race is "the mile". In short course yards competition in America, they swim the 1650y "mile" (66 lengths of a 25y pool).
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