18 Metre pool for lane swimming?

thebouldwhacker

To those who know better than I, I guess the title says it all.
Is an 18 metre pool long enough for lane swimming for tri training or would this length just get too frustrating.
Would it be a deal breaker for joining one gym over another with a 25 metre pool?

Thanks

BTH

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

To those who know better than I, I guess the title says it all.
Is an 18 metre pool long enough for lane swimming for tri training or would this length just get too frustrating.
Would it be a deal breaker for joining one gym over another with a 25 metre pool?

Thanks

SO you have an option of two gyms. One with an 18m pool and one with a 25m pool, right?

All else being equal then 25m pool defo.

Kurt Godel

Even if yearly membership was a couple of €00 extra, go with the 25m pool. I swam for a week in an 18m pool before, you're kicking off the wall as much as swimming.

Chartsengrafs

My first year of swimming was in an 18m pool, really no comparison with a 25m pool to be honest. Though you can pull off fantastic 400m TTs from all the wall kicks

thebouldwhacker

Things aren't equal, Mrs Whacker prefers the gym with 18 metre.
Its also a lot more convenient to access and is relatively new and shiny, with a whole urban chic thang going on, so it does have somethings going for it.
However it comes across as more of a leisure gym. When I went in for a peek it had a few iron pumpers and beautiful people, pool empty, a bit quiet tbh...

Oryx

A lot of leisure pools are very warm, whereas 'swimmers' pools are kept cooler, in my experience. Something else to consider.

Chartsengrafs

That's true. I used to swim in one in the IFSC because there was a discount from my old job. Even at my sedate pace it felt like swimming in soup, albeit a watery soup.