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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lefty said
3) Here is how I interpret the stat: If you choose to work hard durring your 40's and you add less than 6 seconds to your 200 back time durring that period then you are doing better than your competitors as a whole.
Which I claim is how *not* to interpret it. The reason the cohort of 45 - 49 was six seconds slower than the 40 - 44 cohort was not because of age or work or illness or whatever happens between those two ages, but because the 40 - 44 cohort is intrinsically faster than the older one, and will remain so. In other words, I do not believe that the people we are talking about will get 6 seconds slower, on average.
On your other post, I agree completely about not judging people by their worst actions. More specifically, I have found the person in question the ultimate gentleman, and his behavior that I observed after the race, including conversation, is not consistent with the negative description given above.
lefty said
3) Here is how I interpret the stat: If you choose to work hard durring your 40's and you add less than 6 seconds to your 200 back time durring that period then you are doing better than your competitors as a whole.
Which I claim is how *not* to interpret it. The reason the cohort of 45 - 49 was six seconds slower than the 40 - 44 cohort was not because of age or work or illness or whatever happens between those two ages, but because the 40 - 44 cohort is intrinsically faster than the older one, and will remain so. In other words, I do not believe that the people we are talking about will get 6 seconds slower, on average.
On your other post, I agree completely about not judging people by their worst actions. More specifically, I have found the person in question the ultimate gentleman, and his behavior that I observed after the race, including conversation, is not consistent with the negative description given above.
