Swim Set Builder & Pace Clock

A pace clock is the big sweep-hand clock on the pool deck that swimmers use to time send-offs and rest between reps — leaving 'on the top' or 'on the sixty' means starting when the hand hits 60. Pace Lane puts that clock on your iPhone: it counts each send-off for the set you built, advances to the next rep automatically, and shows exactly how much rest is left. It runs fully on the device, so it works at any pool.

It means eight repeats of 100 yards or meters, leaving every 1 minute 30 seconds — the interval includes both the swim and the rest. If you finish a 100 in 1:20, you get 10 seconds at the wall before the next send-off. Pace Lane uses exactly this notation in its builder and parser, and the clock manages the send-offs so you only have to swim.

Yes — Pace Lane is a swim set builder for iPhone. You compose a workout from reps, distance, stroke and interval, organize it into warmup, main and cooldown groups, and tag reps as drill, kick or pull. The total yardage updates live, and the finished set is ready to run against the built-in pace clock.

Pace Lane is designed for exactly that: a big, glanceable clock face made to be read from the wall, counting send-offs and rest for the set you loaded. Timing is pure on-device — no network connection and no watch required. Set the phone on the deck at the end of your lane and swim to it.

The standard way is a send-off interval: each rep starts on a fixed clock time, and your rest is whatever remains after you finish the swim. Pace Lane counts down the time remaining in rest and rolls into the next rep automatically, so you never have to do wall math mid-set. It works the same whether the set is 4×50 kick or a long broken swim.

Multiply each line's reps by its distance and add the lines: 8×100 plus 4×50 is 1,000. It gets error-prone once warmup, drills and cooldown pile up, and it silently breaks if your pool isn't the length the workout assumed. Pace Lane keeps a live total as you build and computes it for your actual pool length.

Distances in a written set assume a pool length, and swimming them in a 20-yard pool changes the real yardage per rep. Pace Lane treats pool length as a locked setting — 25y, 25m, 20y, 33⅓ or 50m — and computes per-rep distance and totals for the pool you actually swim in. That keeps your logged yardage honest, not approximated.

Yes. Pace Lane's coach-paste parser takes plain text like '4×50 kick, 8×100 pull @ 1:40' and lays it out as structured reps with strokes, tags and intervals. That means the workout your coach planned on the whiteboard becomes a timed set in seconds, without tapping through menus rep by rep.

In Pace Lane, yes — reorder, duplicate, or change any rep in two taps while the clock is running. Real sets drift: the lane is crowded, your shoulders are tired, the coach adds a round. The builder and the clock share one live set, so a mid-workout change doesn't mean abandoning the timer.

Pace Lane can export a built set as a custom workout to the Apple Watch Workout app. Your stroke, distance and heart-rate metrics then come from Apple's own first-party pool-swim tracking, which is reliable in the water. The hand-off is optional — the pace clock itself runs entirely on the phone.

They are rep types: drill means technique-focused swimming, kick means legs only (usually with a board), and pull means arms only (usually with a buoy). Coaches mix them into sets to target specific parts of the stroke. Pace Lane has these tags built into the set model, so a line like 4×50 kick reads on the clock exactly the way it was written.

Pace Lane does. Sets are stored locally on the device, the parser and builder work offline, and the pace clock's timing engine never touches the network. Pools are exactly where connectivity dies, so the app is built to assume there is none.

Pace Lane exports any set as a PDF or plain text, ready for the team group chat or a printout on the deck. The shared copy keeps the standard notation — groups, reps, strokes, intervals — so anyone can read it, whether or not they use the app.