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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You're thinking of Wieslaw Musial. He's from Poland and living in Canada now. He won the 200 in Cleveland as well. This year I lead for about 195 meters before he chased me down. I just barely held off Scott Shake who might have won the whole thing with another meter. Scotts last 50 was outstanding. Bill Specht finished fourth. It was one of the best races I've been in regardless of age.
I've been in many races with Scott and Bill and can't recall anyone refusing to shake hands or anything like that. Hope it wasn't me.
Originally posted by jim thornton
I just noticed that Phil and I are tied for exactly 190 posts. So I am adding this one to go up slightly in the posting competition.
Fritz Lehman, are you the fellow originally from Poland who won the 200 back last summer? If you are, congratulations once more on a superb performance.
Even if you aren't who I'm think of, congratulations! It's nice to know that at least in this one event, the winner was not a fellow who has a swimming suit named after him (and who reportedly refused to shake the hand of the winner either before or after the race.)
You're thinking of Wieslaw Musial. He's from Poland and living in Canada now. He won the 200 in Cleveland as well. This year I lead for about 195 meters before he chased me down. I just barely held off Scott Shake who might have won the whole thing with another meter. Scotts last 50 was outstanding. Bill Specht finished fourth. It was one of the best races I've been in regardless of age.
I've been in many races with Scott and Bill and can't recall anyone refusing to shake hands or anything like that. Hope it wasn't me.
Originally posted by jim thornton
I just noticed that Phil and I are tied for exactly 190 posts. So I am adding this one to go up slightly in the posting competition.
Fritz Lehman, are you the fellow originally from Poland who won the 200 back last summer? If you are, congratulations once more on a superb performance.
Even if you aren't who I'm think of, congratulations! It's nice to know that at least in this one event, the winner was not a fellow who has a swimming suit named after him (and who reportedly refused to shake the hand of the winner either before or after the race.)
