I am doing my first LCM meet and was wondering if the conversions are accurate.
50 free SCY to LCM:
26.8 converts to 31.16
100 free SCY to LCM:
1:01.75 converts to 1:11.55
I don't want to seed myself in a slow heat, but I'm almost sure I can do better than that.
I haven't found the SCM to SCY calculator to be very accurate, so for my first LCM meet coming up this Sunday I used it as a guide, then padded out a little to be safe. I'll be interested to see how my actual times compare to the conversions.
a meter is 9.1% longer than a yard.
A yard is 0.9144 meters.
1/0.9144 = 1.093613......
That makes a meter 9.36% longer than a yard.A yard is exactly 8.56% shorter compared to a meter.
If you look at world records, the "penalty" of long course is clearly much more than the distance differenice of ~10% vs. short course yards.
I just looked at FINA and USA Swimming sites:
100 Free:
SCY US Open Record: 41.49
LCM world record: 47.84 115% above the SCY record
SCM world record: 46.25 111% above the SCY record
SCM has the same number of turns so the difference is mostly the distance. The difference is still more than the ~ 10% difference, probably because of the additional fatigue that occurs.
The calculators are close enough for entry times,but that is it. As has been said before LCM and SCY are really totally different.In 200 BR SCY I take about 52 strokes,in LCM it's about 80. Thats a big difference.
SCM has the same number of turns so the difference is mostly the distance. The difference is still more than the ~ 10% difference, probably because of the additional fatigue that occurs.
I think it's more because you're swimming less in SCY. You get the same distance off each wall, so all that extra distance is pure swimming.
Just an update on my first LCM meet,
I swam the 50 LCM in 30.26.
My 26.8 SCY converted to a 31.16, so I beat the conversion by about one second.
Unfortunately the meet ran long and they cancelled the 100.
I think the conversion calculator assumes great turns, which not all of us have.
