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'm only guessing, but my assumption is that the lil' chillins is still being taught to count by fives without paying any attention to giving voice to all those odd things ending in 4 or 9 on the way. They still know they are there but don't feel the need to acknowledge them after their first day in class.
They still have the ears to tell them what sounds right and what doesn't.
Maybe it is a form of political correctness insinuating itself into our way of expressing a simple designation. I liken it to the inroduction of and/or, he/she, chair person, "I could care less", "as of yet", etc., ...all of which are ofensive to the ear.
Anyway, as I said before, there are lots of aspects of "time" that need to be brought to our attention, now and then.
Like, a look at the splits of the 1500 M swum in Cleveland earlier this month will show, if I counted correctly, that for eight of the men and fifteen of the women, there are some that are clearly not correctly stated.
This is not to say that their final times are not correct, but that something has caused the machine to give out information that is not correct. This is not to say,either that they don't give out some intriguing information.
Like, Scott Rabalais swam every single 100 of his 1500 as an individual negative split , if ya'll'l give him credit for a great start off the block.
It's late, gotta git.
I'm only guessing, but my assumption is that the lil' chillins is still being taught to count by fives without paying any attention to giving voice to all those odd things ending in 4 or 9 on the way. They still know they are there but don't feel the need to acknowledge them after their first day in class.
They still have the ears to tell them what sounds right and what doesn't.
Maybe it is a form of political correctness insinuating itself into our way of expressing a simple designation. I liken it to the inroduction of and/or, he/she, chair person, "I could care less", "as of yet", etc., ...all of which are ofensive to the ear.
Anyway, as I said before, there are lots of aspects of "time" that need to be brought to our attention, now and then.
Like, a look at the splits of the 1500 M swum in Cleveland earlier this month will show, if I counted correctly, that for eight of the men and fifteen of the women, there are some that are clearly not correctly stated.
This is not to say that their final times are not correct, but that something has caused the machine to give out information that is not correct. This is not to say,either that they don't give out some intriguing information.
Like, Scott Rabalais swam every single 100 of his 1500 as an individual negative split , if ya'll'l give him credit for a great start off the block.
It's late, gotta git.
