One of the very last posts of 2001 was from me on New Year's Eve. I don't remember whether the title was mine or the administrator who decided that it was a sub topic of something remotely connected with the subject that I was proposing. But, no matter.
Since the change of format this week to the new system, I don't know how to check it out or whether or not it makes any difference. However, after two weeks of no response of any kind and since it was my prerogative, being my birthday, the rare one that is divisable by both sevenses and elevenses, I went back to the subject to give it a boost, hoping that someone would give it some kind of notice. But, alas...
With Ground Hog's (or is it s'?) Day looming around the next corner I'm very much determined to thrust the subject forward a third time in the hope that it will get some serious attention. And it is about time whatever way you choose to take the title.
I don't remember everything I wrote the first two times but I'll simply make the proposal without any but the barest essential elaboration.
As soon as possible post all swimming times in seconds only!
Eliminate the use of minutes, or hours entirely. Having just yesterday having competed in the National Championship Event, The Hour Swim, (a Mail-in Event) I could consent to keeping the title. But for all listing and taking of times it would be 100% beneficial to use seconds only.
The only reason to oppose the notion that I can think of would be related to the existing hardware. But transpositions would be easily done until the mass of the hardware is ready to conform on its own. My guess being that the computer timing systems would need only a nudge to adapt.
Sprinters, of course, wouldn't understand what I'm talking about. But all swimmers who have a use for splits in their calculations run into stumbling blocks, not to mention common errors, that are bound to creep in whenever minutes become part of the results.
I have one other helpful suggestion to make on the subject, and because of the opportunity, why not... If Splits, for example, of a 200 or a 1500 were listed in reverse order, it would be infinitely easier and more instructive to see their value and significance.
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I don't know what happened to what I was writing a few moments ago, but I hit the tab key as part of my writing and some power that be siezed what I had written and posted it long before I had written the evidence which follows. I am using the semicolon rather than the colon itself to seperate minutes from seconds, and I trust that that won't bother you too much. This way I'll be using the keyboard's lower case for the whole exercise.
So here goes with the numbers for the 1500 in question.
48.43 1;48.02 2;51.85 5;06.25
6;11.61 7;19.36 8;27.63
9;34.87 10;42.31 11;50.02 13;01.43
14;10.15 15;19.42 16;29.59 17;46.59
18;58.69 20;07.07 21;14.60 22;22.65
23;33.28 24;41.00 25;47.36 26;54.88
28;01.53 29;07.60 30;14.50 31;14.55
32;10.54 32;22.17
Let me guess at a correction. There should be instead of the last stated time something like 33;06 and 34;02. Or maybe instead of the last three stated times something like 31;20, 32;26, 33;32; and 34;34. Whatever!!! It is certainly not what is written. And nobody knows about it but us chickens. Whereas, if the Seconds Only System were in use it would have been obviously wrong especially if the times were written in reverse order. Thus:
1942.17 1930.54 1874.55 1814.50 1747.60 1681.53 etc.
For some reason that I don't understand, what I have written in nice columns like the results s sheet lists them when it goes to the printer, so to speak, for display in this forum, they don't come out so orderly. Thus you are not made aware that the space above the 13;01.43 is left blank and that there needs to be another time after what is listed as the final 32;22.17.
Seconds Only System
I don't know what happened to what I was writing a few moments ago, but I hit the tab key as part of my writing and some power that be siezed what I had written and posted it long before I had written the evidence which follows. I am using the semicolon rather than the colon itself to seperate minutes from seconds, and I trust that that won't bother you too much. This way I'll be using the keyboard's lower case for the whole exercise.
So here goes with the numbers for the 1500 in question.
48.43 1;48.02 2;51.85 5;06.25
6;11.61 7;19.36 8;27.63
9;34.87 10;42.31 11;50.02 13;01.43
14;10.15 15;19.42 16;29.59 17;46.59
18;58.69 20;07.07 21;14.60 22;22.65
23;33.28 24;41.00 25;47.36 26;54.88
28;01.53 29;07.60 30;14.50 31;14.55
32;10.54 32;22.17
Let me guess at a correction. There should be instead of the last stated time something like 33;06 and 34;02. Or maybe instead of the last three stated times something like 31;20, 32;26, 33;32; and 34;34. Whatever!!! It is certainly not what is written. And nobody knows about it but us chickens. Whereas, if the Seconds Only System were in use it would have been obviously wrong especially if the times were written in reverse order. Thus:
1942.17 1930.54 1874.55 1814.50 1747.60 1681.53 etc.
For some reason that I don't understand, what I have written in nice columns like the results s sheet lists them when it goes to the printer, so to speak, for display in this forum, they don't come out so orderly. Thus you are not made aware that the space above the 13;01.43 is left blank and that there needs to be another time after what is listed as the final 32;22.17.
Seconds Only System
