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Originally Posted by Sharonenright
Thank you for the response.
Why the sports pools, in particular? Are they better for lap swimming than the other two types of pools? I am not a resident yet and completely ignorant in this area.
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Sports pools are a regulation length lap swimming pool that is 25 yards long and has lines painted on the bottom of the pool so people swimming freestyle, breast stroke, and butterfly (very few seniors can still swim fly) can swim in a straight line. The pools also have swim flags on both ends of the pool so backstrokers such as myself can tell when the wall is coming and avoid banging their head on a concrete wall (trust me, that hurts). The pools also have swim lanes that provide many benefits, including helping backstrokers swim in a straight line, they break the waves from other swimmers making for a much more enjoyable swim, and they prevent multiple swimmers from colliding into each other. Swimming laps in a neighborhood pool simply does not work if one is a serious lap swimmer. Also, serious lap swimmers want to know how far they swim so they can gauge their workout. In a regulation 25 yard pool, I know that when I swim 72 laps that I have completed a mile, and when I reach 108 laps I have gone a mile and a half, and that it's now time for a cold beer.
