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?
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?
Yes, you're looking at it backwards. Think of it as a yard only comes to the 0.9144 meter mark on a meter stick (91.44 cm).
Same idea with a kilometer compared to a mile. You know a km is shorter than a mile. One km equals about 0.62 miles. If you're driving and you go 0.62 miles you've already gone one kilometer.
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?
Yes, you're looking at it backwards. Think of it as a yard only comes to the 0.9144 meter mark on a meter stick (91.44 cm).
Same idea with a kilometer compared to a mile. You know a km is shorter than a mile. One km equals about 0.62 miles. If you're driving and you go 0.62 miles you've already gone one kilometer.
