I am considering participating in a long course meet, though I have never even seen a 50-meter pool in person, let alone practiced in one. I will NOT have the opportunity to practice in one before the meet. How much more difficult is long course meters than short course yards (e.g. no walls to push off from? How should I modify my training in my 25-yard pool to prepare? Also, I recall a chart that converted short-course times into long course, but I don't remember where I saw it. Any ideas?
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I have recently written a small Visual Basic.NET program to do this conversion. It also includes estimates of the 50yd - 50m back, *** and fly events and some of the distance free events that are not included on the SwimInfo web site. These are probably accurate to about 1% or somewhat better, in my own case. Having the program would make you independent of the internet.
I am looking for anyone who would be willing to test out this software & would be happy to e-mail a copy to whoever wants one. In particular, there are many combinations and I have not tested them all. I would like feedback on what makes the program fail. Unfortunately, with Microsoft's new version of Visual Basic, there is a required 20 Megabyte download support framework before the software will run. Also, it will work on Windows 2000, XP (both tested) and probably 98 (untested yet). Not sure if it will run on ME or 95. If anyone wants to try, I can give some guidance in this process.
If you are interested, you can either e-mail me directly or post a request to this discussion group.
mel
I have recently written a small Visual Basic.NET program to do this conversion. It also includes estimates of the 50yd - 50m back, *** and fly events and some of the distance free events that are not included on the SwimInfo web site. These are probably accurate to about 1% or somewhat better, in my own case. Having the program would make you independent of the internet.
I am looking for anyone who would be willing to test out this software & would be happy to e-mail a copy to whoever wants one. In particular, there are many combinations and I have not tested them all. I would like feedback on what makes the program fail. Unfortunately, with Microsoft's new version of Visual Basic, there is a required 20 Megabyte download support framework before the software will run. Also, it will work on Windows 2000, XP (both tested) and probably 98 (untested yet). Not sure if it will run on ME or 95. If anyone wants to try, I can give some guidance in this process.
If you are interested, you can either e-mail me directly or post a request to this discussion group.
mel
