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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
