One time conversion tool I have used only does freestyle for 50 yard/meter distances. For other strokes like breaststroke the turns are a very significant part and I'm wondering how close a simple 1.1 conversion is.
Based on the 50 BR event rankings, I went from 58/90 SCM (38.54) to 50/141 SCY (32.61), so I definitely went faster but it's hard to pin down how much.
I think a large part of this was from changes in my weightlifting routine.
I use the conversion tool on Swimming World, but some others here do not believe they are representative. Based on my own experience with them and converting 50/100/200 Freestyle events, they seem to be pretty good.
My experience is based on 2 meets 1 week apart, where the first was SCY and the next was SCM. I did 2 easy days before both, and my poolwork and dryland during the weeks prior was the same. Granted there are some confounds (e.g recovery from first meet, faster pool 2nd meet) but I believe they cancel out for the most part.
For the 2nd meet (SCM), the (converted times for the) 50 was 0.04sec slower, the 100 was 0.48sec faster (missed a turn completely in the first meet), and the 200 was 0.52 slower. Again, this is one comparison but I don't think the conversion tool does a bad job for these events, and I'll probably be using my converted 100 time as a seed time for Clovis since it was my fastest this year.
I use the conversion tool on Swimming World, but some others here do not believe they are representative. Based on my own experience with them and converting 50/100/200 Freestyle events, they seem to be pretty good.
My experience is based on 2 meets 1 week apart, where the first was SCY and the next was SCM. I did 2 easy days before both, and my poolwork and dryland during the weeks prior was the same. Granted there are some confounds (e.g recovery from first meet, faster pool 2nd meet) but I believe they cancel out for the most part.
For the 2nd meet (SCM), the (converted times for the) 50 was 0.04sec slower, the 100 was 0.48sec faster (missed a turn completely in the first meet), and the 200 was 0.52 slower. Again, this is one comparison but I don't think the conversion tool does a bad job for these events, and I'll probably be using my converted 100 time as a seed time for Clovis since it was my fastest this year.
