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If you're doing distance sessions I wouldn't bother counting, it just makes the whole enterprise seem dull and like watching the clock, it seems to make it last longer. Plus you'll inevitably lose count. Your method of going for a duration based on an average pace is bang on I'd say.
Although when I was training for a distance event a few years back i played a game to keep myself amused, if my session was going to be say, 100 lengths, I'd start in the year 1910 and try and think one thing I knew about that year in the first 25 metres, and so on up to 2010.
These days almost all of my training is in sets dictated a coach and I tend to stay mid-lane so I'm not leading and don't even need to count. Also I tend to do the sprint stuff as the variety is more fun. I really should do some distance stuff too. I used to really enjoy cruising up and down for 90 mins or so.