Sentences with phrase «with lap swimmers»

Not exact matches

In opting for swimming, Kiki chose perhaps the toughest of disciplines: long hours of arm - heavy laps in the practice pool, where the only view is a shadowy blue blur that may be another swimmer or one's own imagination; the greedy slap and gurgle of arms (reach, grab, recover, reach, as the late Matt Mann rationalized it); the ring around the eyeballs, endemic to the competitive swimmer, caused by chlorine, which makes the whole wide world glow with halos on the way home from practice.

In the violence with which 100 - yard freestyle finalists hit a turn these days — boiling and showering water as they flip, doubling up for a split second into a prenatal ball, then rocketing off into the next lap — a spectator some distance away can miss seeing swimmers foul up their turns.

That being said, if you're an extremely experienced swimmer and / or have a good swim buddy to swim with, there are some really cool things you can do without necessarily having to just swim laps back and forth in a pool while staring at the black line at the bottom of the water.

• The Garden Pool, favored by families, is semi-circular, with coves and islands • The sizable Reflection Pool has a splash area and a lap lane of 118 feet (swimmers: 46 lengths to the mile); it's adults - only and a quiet zone • The freeform, infinity - edge Ocean Pool appeals to families and to lap swimmers, with an 83 - foot lap lane; it offers chilled face towels and waiter service

The two companies have worked together to bring proprietary lap counting algorithms to the firmware, which allows swimmers to easily track their laps with the highest level of accuracy, regardless of which stroke type is being used.

The Misfit Speedo Shine, designed specifically for swimmers, works with algorithms developed with Speedo and can show a lap countdown, indicating how much further you'll need to swim to meet your goal.

For swimmers, there's a dedicated swim exercise mode with lap counting.