Anyone know of gyms with 50+ meter pools? They all seem to have 25 meter pools apart from rec centers, but the gyms at rec centers suck.

besides allowing niggers and asians in them, what sucks about them? the ones i use are beautiful. you just have to wash when you get out of the pool and then again when you get home.

The Rec Centers I have been to had the ability to run 50 meter lanes, but were set up for 25. Weight rooms can vary in quality from one to another.

I believe you can buy a pass that let's you use GMU's athletic facilities. They have a 50 meter competition pool.

If anyone were good enough to need a 50-meter pool, he or she would already know where to access one.

Send a text to Katie Ledecky. I bet she knows where a 50-meter pool is...

GMU does have a pass for a year and its expensive . They were letting people buy a day pass but they stopped it.

Wilson Pool in DC is a nice new pool about 5 dollars a day and its a 50 meter pool where every one swims the 50 meter way, not across it at 25 yards.

For DC residents its free which by rights the FXCO Rec centers should be with the $$ Tax dollars people pay here and the FCPA 's high entrance fees.Due to a out dated FCPA policy that rec centers should pay for themselves without any general fund money, a policy that started with the FCPA when they were started in the 50's and trying to buy parkland in FXCO when people were saying there are trees every where why pay for parklands.

Want to see some really shitty locker rooms?? Go to FCPA Spring Hill Rec center and look at that s-hole. Even though they just did a multi million nice gym and indoor walking track and weight room addition. Filthy

And the same goes to the newest FCPA rec centers locker room at Cub Run, s-stained floor tiles.

The people that run these centers have never heard of a floor machine and some steel wool. Filthy as well. plus the broken lockers and know it all attitude of the staff. No wonder people are going elsewhere.

Water-wings Wrote:
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> If anyone were good enough to need a 50-meter
> pool, he or she would already know where to access
> one.


I can out swim you, guaranteed. 1500 M freestyle in 16 minutes.



@No theres- Thanks, I will have to check GMU out

The GMU facility is very nice, a very large long exercise machine area on the entry level, the pools are down stairs on the left a warm small pool with a hot tub, on the right a 50 meter full race Olympic competition pool with tall bleachers for race spectators, where all the lanes are deep.

Its called the Jim McKay Natatorium after the Fairfax owner of the same Chevy dealership. The pool is considered to be a bit cool for some swimmers, kept at a temp racing swimmers like. The locker rooms are down stairs.

Its also open the longest ,6am I think open the longest hours early am till past 10 pm. Students and staff go free, families of students got a discount, don't know if they still do that. The only down side is that the year pass is about 550 dollars and its only good for that one place. The FCPA rec pass is about the same but they do have 9 indoor pools. If you can stand the locker room filth in several of them as said and the broken 25 cent lockers, no padlocks, broken because they are always being broken in to and because no one there knows how to use a can of WD 40.

Hey, OP...I would definitely check out one of the area rec-centers...

If your going to a FCPA Rec Center, Better yet be prepared just like your riding Metro: As they said here on FXU you need to bring a Flashlight, Gas Mask, MRE's, Haz Mat suit, Fire Extinguisher and don't forget the Traffic Cones!

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> Hey, OP...I would definitely check out one of the
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I'm pretty sure they all go across (25 Meters).

The only pool that is 50 meters long where you can swim the whole 50 is the Wilson pool in DC. GMU is 50 as well as others but they set them up for lap swim at 25 yards. http://app.dpr.dc.gov/dprmap/details.asp?cid=3

Pic is Wilson Pool in North West DC Near Wisconsin and near a Metro station. Tear it up with the freestyle champ.
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Aren't the olympics done in 25m laps?

They race 50 meters the long way. 50 meters a length just like the way Wilson Pool is set up in DC at Wilson High school..50 meters 100 meters 200 meters on and on.

Wilson High School.. DC has pools at High Schools.!. What about FCPS "Excellence"?? "World Class " Schools. Ha Ha Ha..LMAO! FCPS waste more then pools would even cost!

50+ meters? I would like to visit those big pools but the closest to me gym is pretty far actually. I bet workers who maintain these pools spend tons of their time to check it fully. Even a pool robotic cleaner, if used, helps you not that great because the pools are enormous.

that is too far to swim. I've had to get off a boat that was sinking and I didn't have to swim that far.