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'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.....' :)
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.....' :)
