Swimmers,
this is a continuation of a topic from the 'Top Ten Link' thread I posted earlier. In that thread, there was a discussion about keeping track of ALL swim times, so that everyone could see how he/she was doing. This is an update on that project.
At the start of long-course season, I volunteered to round up as many sanctioned meets for Jim Matysek as I could, to be put into the USMS searchable database, found at:
www.usms.org/.../toptimes.shtml.
I know of 49 meets (as of last weekend) that have had results posted to LMSC or Zone web sites. Of that number 44 are in the database, for a yield of about 90%. I would encourage each of you to usethis tool to see how you like it. It is not completely error-free since I had to manually-convert HTML files and Word documents for about half of all meets. I even hand-entered a couple of PDF files, which are the worst to deal with. Please let me know if you find any errors in what you see.
I think this shows that we CAN archive all the meets with a bit of work. Certainly, it's managable for LCM and SCM courses -- maybe not yet for SCY.
If you find this a valuable service, you can help by encouraging meet directors to submit their meet results to the USMS.
Enjoy!
Mel Dyck
Sorry Toad. Guess I was just getting a somewhat defensive attitude happening about the implication without engaging my brain first. Maybe too much hypoxic stuff lately? Anyway, thanks for all the information all of you have taken the time to provide for all of us. We really do appreciate the time and effort that our volunteers have done, and are doing, on our behalf and for Masters Swimming in general.
Sorry Toad. Guess I was just getting a somewhat defensive attitude happening about the implication without engaging my brain first. Maybe too much hypoxic stuff lately? Anyway, thanks for all the information all of you have taken the time to provide for all of us. We really do appreciate the time and effort that our volunteers have done, and are doing, on our behalf and for Masters Swimming in general.
