This is going to sound stupid, but I've been looking up the answer and that should settle it, but it goes against everything I've ever known about this sport. I grew up thinking that yards were shorter than meters. One day recently I looked it up so I could convert my meters into yards and I did more yards than actual meters. Looking at a conversion chart right now says a yard is .9144 meters. Yet I foud a time converter online and all yards times are faster. Uhhhh, what am I missing here?
Since 100 yd is shorter than 100 M,if you do 55 for 100 m your conversion to 100 yd will be a faster time(about 50 sec if I did the conversion right in my head.)So if you did 55 for 100 SCM you could do about 50 in SCY.
You mail in your results; it's the honor system. Usually they involve a counter who records your splits and signs for honesty (one-hour swim, 3000, 10K, 5000 (?), a few others I'm not thinking of).
I realize that. My point is on this time converter it would say for example a :55 100 meter time would be faster if it was in a yard pool. That doesn't make sense
This is going to sound stupid, but I've been looking up the answer and that should settle it, but it goes against everything I've ever known about this sport. I grew up thinking that yards were shorter than meters. One day recently I looked it up so I could convert my meters into yards and I did more yards than actual meters. Looking at a conversion chart right now says a yard is .9144 meters. Yet I foud a time converter online and all yards times are faster. Uhhhh, what am I missing here?
I also have another dumb question.. Even though yours wasn't dumb.
What do postal meets mean? -Julia:confused:
I'm a first grade teacher ...
I was thinking how glad I am that I'm not a teacher, but I can see Sarge is very clearly a really good teacher. I'm impressed by that explanation ...
You just said yards are shorter than meters, yet, again 1 yard equals 0.9144 meters. Shouldn't that number be over 1.0 for meters to be more? Am I looking at it backwards?
1 meter is ~1.09yds. I am not sure if you are now just joking with us or not. but look at it like this
1 yd is complete 100% is equal to 0.9144 meters (91%)
so if you take 100% of a meter (1.00) then you need to go 109% of a yard.
if you still don't understand the whole yds vs meters, just know that yards are short shorter, swimming in a yds pool will be faster than swimming in a meter pool.
You just said yards are shorter than meters, yet, again 1 yard equals 0.9144 meters. Shouldn't that number be over 1.0 for meters to be more? Am I looking at it backwards?
I think you're looking at it backwards. If you took a yard stick and a meter stick and laid them side by side, the meter stick would be longer than the yard stick. In order to to make the meter stick the same length as the yard stick, you would have to cut off 0.0856 meters. I think you're just making it hard on yourself by trying to overthink it. Visualize the yard stick and the meter stick. That should help you. If you think about that, you will realize that since a yard is shorter than a meter, it should take you less time to travel a yard than a meter if you're going the same speed.
You just said yards are shorter than meters, yet, again 1 yard equals 0.9144 meters. Shouldn't that number be over 1.0 for meters to be more? Am I looking at it backwards?
I'm a first grade teacher, so I happen to own both a yard stick and a meter stick (each made out of very low-grade pine).
The yard stick is obviously shorter. Visualize each stick side by side. Now visualize an ant crawling the distance of each stick. If both ants are going the same speed, the ant on the yard stick will reach the end of her stick before the ant on the meter stick reaches the end of hers.
USMS swimmers in a pool are just like the ants on the stick.
Whew, that was close. I thought you were going to say 'visualize Mookie swimming the distance.....' :)
