Hi,
I've always loved swimming during the summer. I just graduated college and was thinking about making an iPhone app for swimmers.
The thing is, I never was a competitive swimmer, mostly using a local lake. Would greatly appreciate some feedback and input. :)
So: What features would you like in an app?
And: Would a feature to record swim times of standard swims (100 *** SCY) be useful? Would it be good for training purposes or more used for recording meet results?
Thanks!
Claire,
there are a number of sites you can look at with useful swimming features to incorporate into your app.
For instance, right here at USMS, if you visit the Go the Distance section, you can see how this helps us keep track of our yards, meters, miles, etc. and lets us know if we are on pace for our (self-defined) yearly goal. It's really popular.
www.usms.org/.../gothedistance
One of my favorite sites, seeing as I am getting a wee bit long in the tooth, is Chris Stevenson's "rating calculator" at the Virginia LMSC website. You can access this here:
www.vaswim.org/.../rcalc.cgi What is so cool about this one is that you can compare a swim done at, say, age 47 with the same distance swum at age 59. Youth has obvious advantages, but this rating calculator--like a handicap in golf--is a fun way to compare your times with nemeses in different age groups. It's also a good way to see if you are losing more or less ground to the reaper as normative declines would predict!
There are also a number of sites that will convert your times from, say, a long course meters pool to a short course yards pool. My personal favorite, because it has very generous conversions, is this one:
www.greatbaymasters.org/convert.html
One thing I haven't been able to find, but would love to get, is something that would let me enter all my times during a given season for different events, then crank out graphs automatically so I could see if, for example, my 50 free is deteriorating, holding steady, or improving.
Claire,
there are a number of sites you can look at with useful swimming features to incorporate into your app.
For instance, right here at USMS, if you visit the Go the Distance section, you can see how this helps us keep track of our yards, meters, miles, etc. and lets us know if we are on pace for our (self-defined) yearly goal. It's really popular.
www.usms.org/.../gothedistance
One of my favorite sites, seeing as I am getting a wee bit long in the tooth, is Chris Stevenson's "rating calculator" at the Virginia LMSC website. You can access this here:
www.vaswim.org/.../rcalc.cgi What is so cool about this one is that you can compare a swim done at, say, age 47 with the same distance swum at age 59. Youth has obvious advantages, but this rating calculator--like a handicap in golf--is a fun way to compare your times with nemeses in different age groups. It's also a good way to see if you are losing more or less ground to the reaper as normative declines would predict!
There are also a number of sites that will convert your times from, say, a long course meters pool to a short course yards pool. My personal favorite, because it has very generous conversions, is this one:
www.greatbaymasters.org/convert.html
One thing I haven't been able to find, but would love to get, is something that would let me enter all my times during a given season for different events, then crank out graphs automatically so I could see if, for example, my 50 free is deteriorating, holding steady, or improving.
