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It will follow a motif called, "World of..." as in, the "World of Swimming", of Cycling, and so forth. This includes a change in the home page. It's a big navigational re-do and it will be foisted on you soon.
As a consequence of this you will see a few articles like this one. Consider them like ligaments, joining one repository of knowledge to another.
As a consequence of this you will see a few articles like this one. Consider them like ligaments, joining one repository of knowledge to another.
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Translating this to swimming, we might then say that you are going to "leave" on the 2min for a set of hundreds, and if that's the case you'll swim 100 yards (or meters, as the case may be) in, say, a minute and a half. You'll get 30sec rest if your "leave interval" is 2 minutes.
Why does swimming do it that way? Because of the clock. The clock is always running on a pool deck. You can't start and stop it. You have to work within the confines of a running clock.
It is often the case that you'll choose a different leave interval depending on what you want to accomplish. If you want to work on top-end speed, you might swim 10x100yd "leaving" on the 2min. you'll swim each 100 fast, but you need more rest in between each. If you swim 10x100 leaving on the 1:40 you can't swim each 100 fast because you don't have as much rest.
If you just choose an average swim set, and what you'll typically choose as a leave interval, that interval for each 100 yards is emblematic of your ability. If you go to a Masters swim team workout, you might see the swimmers arranged in lanes, and in lane-1 it might be the 1:10 or 1:15 swimmers. These guys and gals might swim 10x100yd taking only just over a minute for each 100, then they "leave" on the 1:10 or 1:15. This is a really fast lane.
The next lane over, lane-2, might be the 1:20 lane, lane-3 might be the 1:30 lane and so forth. If you're swimming in the 1:20 lane you'll more often than not – but not always – perform a set of 100s on the 1:20 "base", or "repeating" on the 1:20. If the workout is a set of 200s, they might well be swum "repeating on the 2:40", which is still considered leaving on the "1:20 base".
Why does swimming do it that way? Because of the clock. The clock is always running on a pool deck. You can't start and stop it. You have to work within the confines of a running clock.
It is often the case that you'll choose a different leave interval depending on what you want to accomplish. If you want to work on top-end speed, you might swim 10x100yd "leaving" on the 2min. you'll swim each 100 fast, but you need more rest in between each. If you swim 10x100 leaving on the 1:40 you can't swim each 100 fast because you don't have as much rest.
If you just choose an average swim set, and what you'll typically choose as a leave interval, that interval for each 100 yards is emblematic of your ability. If you go to a Masters swim team workout, you might see the swimmers arranged in lanes, and in lane-1 it might be the 1:10 or 1:15 swimmers. These guys and gals might swim 10x100yd taking only just over a minute for each 100, then they "leave" on the 1:10 or 1:15. This is a really fast lane.
The next lane over, lane-2, might be the 1:20 lane, lane-3 might be the 1:30 lane and so forth. If you're swimming in the 1:20 lane you'll more often than not – but not always – perform a set of 100s on the 1:20 "base", or "repeating" on the 1:20. If the workout is a set of 200s, they might well be swum "repeating on the 2:40", which is still considered leaving on the "1:20 base".
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Everything else is just the time increment around the face of the clock. "Leave on the 40" means the next time the clock hits the 40-second point (regardless of what minute the clock is on). So, leave on the 15, the 20, the 45, should now make sense to you if it didn't already.
May I digress for a moment? I like to do sets that leave on some multiple of :15 or :20, and I do the former in multiples of 4 and the latter in multiples of 3. Anything that finishes on the :30 I like to do in multiples of 2. So, 12x100 leaving on the 1:20 or 1:40 means that I'm back leaving "on the top" after completing 3 of them. This helps me keep track. If I do 12x100 on the 1:40, it takes 5 minutes to complete around of 3x100, so, that set of a dozen 100s takes me exactly 20 minutes to complete. I note the minute on which I'm leaving. If I leave when the clock says 10 minutes then I'll finish the set when the clock says 30 minutes. Let's say I wanted to swim 200s repeating on the 3:15. I would probably do 4 of these, or 8, because after every 4 I'm back on the top. If I did 4 of these, the whole set will take 13 minutes; 8 of them in 26min.
I threw a couple of acronyms and terms at you, just above, let's decode them. When we say "short course" we mean a pool that is set up in a 25-something configuration. That something might be yards of meters. If it's 25 yards we call that short course yards (SCY). If it's 25 meters it's short course meters. If you jump in an unfamiliar pool and you are swimming horribly slowly and you don't know why, ask the lifeguard, maybe you're in a short course meters pool, and you assumed it was yards. On average, you'll swim about maybe 10sec slower per 100 if you're swimming in a SCM pool.
Long course is 50 meters. Always meters. Most 50 meter pools are built so that it's 50 meters one way and 25 yards the other. There are swimming seasons, and short course season (short course national championships, etc.) are swum in 25-yard pools, long course is 50 meters. The Olympics are always long course, always meters, always 50 meters. Long course is slower than short course. While SCM is 10sec or so slower than SCY, LCM is 12sec, on average, slower than SCY. Why? Because turns are faster than swimming. All the SCM records are faster than LCM records because every event has more turns. If you swim LCM faster than SCM you are a truly horrible turner.
May I digress for a moment? I like to do sets that leave on some multiple of :15 or :20, and I do the former in multiples of 4 and the latter in multiples of 3. Anything that finishes on the :30 I like to do in multiples of 2. So, 12x100 leaving on the 1:20 or 1:40 means that I'm back leaving "on the top" after completing 3 of them. This helps me keep track. If I do 12x100 on the 1:40, it takes 5 minutes to complete around of 3x100, so, that set of a dozen 100s takes me exactly 20 minutes to complete. I note the minute on which I'm leaving. If I leave when the clock says 10 minutes then I'll finish the set when the clock says 30 minutes. Let's say I wanted to swim 200s repeating on the 3:15. I would probably do 4 of these, or 8, because after every 4 I'm back on the top. If I did 4 of these, the whole set will take 13 minutes; 8 of them in 26min.
I threw a couple of acronyms and terms at you, just above, let's decode them. When we say "short course" we mean a pool that is set up in a 25-something configuration. That something might be yards of meters. If it's 25 yards we call that short course yards (SCY). If it's 25 meters it's short course meters. If you jump in an unfamiliar pool and you are swimming horribly slowly and you don't know why, ask the lifeguard, maybe you're in a short course meters pool, and you assumed it was yards. On average, you'll swim about maybe 10sec slower per 100 if you're swimming in a SCM pool.
Long course is 50 meters. Always meters. Most 50 meter pools are built so that it's 50 meters one way and 25 yards the other. There are swimming seasons, and short course season (short course national championships, etc.) are swum in 25-yard pools, long course is 50 meters. The Olympics are always long course, always meters, always 50 meters. Long course is slower than short course. While SCM is 10sec or so slower than SCY, LCM is 12sec, on average, slower than SCY. Why? Because turns are faster than swimming. All the SCM records are faster than LCM records because every event has more turns. If you swim LCM faster than SCM you are a truly horrible turner.
