Yeah, I know this is in the 'cool story bro' category but anyway....

Was hella depressing to go swim a z2 workout earlier this wk that I normally average for 3000+ at 1:35-40/100yds across a full workout, but do it a new high school pool that I've never been to before, and come in at 2:01/100yds for the average for the same effort. I knew the '25m' length should be harder, but WTF!?! Normally 25yd to m should be around a 6-8sec/100 drop in pace, not 20sec!

It kinda lit a fire under my swim attitude, thinking 'wow - that was unexpected, I gotta pay a lot more attention to swimming!" etc. Booked another slot later next week for the rematch, at the same pool, hoping for better.

Then I did my internet research, and found an article that described the successful completion of this pool - it was a 50m pool that had a moveable divider that could split the pool to accomodate 25yds on one side an longer on the other. I knew the short side was 25yds (not the side I was in) as the lifeguard told me that, and I assumed the long side was 25m.

Turns out 50m - 25 yards = 29.6 yards for the long side. (Or 27m). So an extra 20 yards for each 100 in that long pool compared to a 100yd pool. Which essentially accounts for the speed differential in pools. Whew. Although honestly I could have used that extra motivation to swim.

Gotta watch out for those errant weird pool lengths!

And I know, cool story bro!

Good point. this bulkhead is pretty narrow. Lifeguard today told me 30yds.long side.

I can swim there a whole hour!!

The bulkheads for the 50 meter pools in Nashville are usually setup for 25 yards on either side unless they move them for short course meters competition.

45 mins typically

The width of the bulkhead is almost certainly accounted for in the 50m length. Unless the moveable bulkhead is a removable bulkhead it would simply be pushed up against one of the two end walls and leave 50m remaining. In many 50m pools in the US which feature moveable bulkheads, there are 2 bulkheads which can be configured to have 1 at either end with 50m between them, both at the same end with 50m of pool until the opposite permanent wall, or in the middle with a sum of 50m of pool still remaining in any combination! In other words, the original math is correct.

Yeah, I know this is in the 'cool story bro' category but anyway....

Was hella depressing to go swim a z2 workout earlier this wk that I normally average for 3000+ at 1:35-40/100yds across a full workout, but do it a new high school pool that I've never been to before, and come in at 2:01/100yds for the average for the same effort. I knew the '25m' length should be harder, but WTF!?! Normally 25yd to m should be around a 6-8sec/100 drop in pace, not 20sec!

It kinda lit a fire under my swim attitude, thinking 'wow - that was unexpected, I gotta pay a lot more attention to swimming!" etc. Booked another slot later next week for the rematch, at the same pool, hoping for better.

Then I did my internet research, and found an article that described the successful completion of this pool - it was a 50m pool that had a moveable divider that could split the pool to accomodate 25yds on one side an longer on the other. I knew the short side was 25yds (not the side I was in) as the lifeguard told me that, and I assumed the long side was 25m.

Turns out 50m - 25 yards = 29.6 yards for the long side. (Or 27m). So an extra 20 yards for each 100 in that long pool compared to a 100yd pool. Which essentially accounts for the speed differential in pools. Whew. Although honestly I could have used that extra motivation to swim.

Gotta watch out for those errant weird pool lengths!

And I know, cool story bro!

Yeah, I know this is in the 'cool story bro' category but anyway....

Was hella depressing to go swim a z2 workout earlier this wk that I normally average for 3000+ at 1:35-40/100yds across a full workout, but do it a new high school pool that I've never been to before, and come in at 2:01/100yds for the average for the same effort. I knew the '25m' length should be harder, but WTF!?! Normally 25yd to m should be around a 6-8sec/100 drop in pace, not 20sec!

It kinda lit a fire under my swim attitude, thinking 'wow - that was unexpected, I gotta pay a lot more attention to swimming!" etc. Booked another slot later next week for the rematch, at the same pool, hoping for better.

Then I did my internet research, and found an article that described the successful completion of this pool - it was a 50m pool that had a moveable divider that could split the pool to accomodate 25yds on one side an longer on the other. I knew the short side was 25yds (not the side I was in) as the lifeguard told me that, and I assumed the long side was 25m.

Turns out 50m - 25 yards = 29.6 yards for the long side. (Or 27m). So an extra 20 yards for each 100 in that long pool compared to a 100yd pool. Which essentially accounts for the speed differential in pools. Whew. Although honestly I could have used that extra motivation to swiim
Gotta watch out for those errant weird pool lengths!

And I know, cool story bro!

The width of the bulkhead is almost certainly accounted for in the 50m length. Unless the moveable bulkhead is a removable bulkhead it would simply be pushed up against one of the two end walls and leave 50m remaining. In many 50m pools in the US which feature moveable bulkheads, there are 2 bulkheads which can be configured to have 1 at either end with 50m between them, both at the same end with 50m of pool until the opposite permanent wall, or in the middle with a sum of 50m of pool still remaining in any combination! In other words, the original math is correct.

Question..did you not immediately know something was off, given how many strokes you were taking?

I swam at an apartment pool yesterday and I walked it and got 32 yards. They advertise it as “jr Olympic” whatever that means. I just used 3 laps =100 yards and left it at that and didn’t use a watch for any of my sets

I actually do count stroke lengths, but I honestly haven't swum in a 25m pool for over 8 years now, so I have completely forgetten how many strokes it takes!

I did have some suspicion it was long based on how many extra strokes compared to 25yds it was taking, but I had just done a 90 minute run with z3 x 20' in the middle of it immediately before the swim and a hard 2hr bike the day prior, so I was definitely feeling draggy and thus wasn't sure if I was just sucking on the swim due to accumulated fatigue (I was def tired before even hitting the pool deck!)