When a new masters swimmer asked on a different thread for a meters to yard conversion utility, I referred her to the following site:
www.swiminfo.com/.../conversions.asp
Unfortunately, as another poster quickly pointed out, this site will soon be available only to those who pay for it.
I am wondering if someone with some computer savvy could recreate this very useful utility for us masters, then post it in an area of the USMS web site where we could access it for free.
This same area could also include some other useful tools for swimmers. There is, for example, a fun (though perhaps somewhat suspect) "future times predictor" for aging swimmers at:
http://n3times.com/swimtimes/
In addition, my friend and teammate Bill White wrote an Excel spreadsheet (so far not posted on the web) that allows you to easily calculate your 100 pace for distance swims. You can either input the total distance and total time and it will give you your average 100; or you can input the average 100 you hope to swim and the total distance, and it will crank out what your overall time will be if you can hold that pace.
Anyhow, I propose the USMS web site add a new section called something like "Swimmers Tool Box" that collects, in one place, all these useful and/or just fun-to-play-around-with utilities we can come up with. I know many of the posters here are brilliant amateur mathematicians, who enjoy inventing these things; maybe we could even have an annual award for whatever new calculator we users vote as the most interesting! Kind of like a Touring Prize (is that the right name) for swimming math esoterica!
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Originally posted by msgrupp
Isn't Swimming World published by the same people who publish SWIM? Or at least when I call the 800# for renewals I always have to specifiy Swim Magazine.
Seems that if you do subscribe to Swim Magazine--you could use your subscriber # (ala People Magazine's website that needs a user ID # from your label) to gain admittance.
They are published by the same people, but when I looked they said the subscription area was only for people who get Swimming World. As I said in the other thread if someone can get me the numbers they had over at swiminfo the program wouldn't be that hard to do. I was hoping for a cache but couldn't find one.
Originally posted by msgrupp
Isn't Swimming World published by the same people who publish SWIM? Or at least when I call the 800# for renewals I always have to specifiy Swim Magazine.
Seems that if you do subscribe to Swim Magazine--you could use your subscriber # (ala People Magazine's website that needs a user ID # from your label) to gain admittance.
They are published by the same people, but when I looked they said the subscription area was only for people who get Swimming World. As I said in the other thread if someone can get me the numbers they had over at swiminfo the program wouldn't be that hard to do. I was hoping for a cache but couldn't find one.
