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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Just my point Phil, I think most of those men just turn 45. So their training back 30 years ago was probably not much different from those 40 to 44. On the hand, the women in the 45 to 49 year old age group have seen some real drops of 2 to 4 seconds in the Qualifing times in a year. I bet that the younger women entering the age group are more likely to have swam either age group or college than those approching 50 years old. A good example of an elite woman is the ex-olympician Shane Gould,she didn't return until her 40's. Does great at 50's and still probably good at 100's about 4 seconds off in them and about 14 to 17 seconds off in the 200's. On the other hand, the fastest women's 200 Im at the same meet in the 45 to 49, Miss Gould got second to Collete Crabbe, who I think started back to swim a little bit earlier.
Just my point Phil, I think most of those men just turn 45. So their training back 30 years ago was probably not much different from those 40 to 44. On the hand, the women in the 45 to 49 year old age group have seen some real drops of 2 to 4 seconds in the Qualifing times in a year. I bet that the younger women entering the age group are more likely to have swam either age group or college than those approching 50 years old. A good example of an elite woman is the ex-olympician Shane Gould,she didn't return until her 40's. Does great at 50's and still probably good at 100's about 4 seconds off in them and about 14 to 17 seconds off in the 200's. On the other hand, the fastest women's 200 Im at the same meet in the 45 to 49, Miss Gould got second to Collete Crabbe, who I think started back to swim a little bit earlier.
