When I started swimming masters a few years ago, I soon found myself wanting some time standards to compare myself against. Sure, tracking my own PRs is motivating, but I also wanted some sort of objective mark to measure myself against.
There is the Top 10 list, of course, but I'm not close enough to those times for them to serve as realistic motivation. Nationals qualifying times provide a slightly lower bar, but these are still out of many masters' reach. It seems like there should be some sort of time standards that are more widely applicable -- like the A, AA, ... motivational times in kids' age group swimming.
I did use those USA Swimming motivational times for a while, but I got tired of comparing myself to 12-year-olds. Eventually I decided to create my own masters' motivational time standards, using the same method that is used for the kids.
I have really enjoyed using these motivational times over the past couple of years, and I'm guessing they might be useful to others as well. Especially for those, like me, who are competitive enough to be motivated by a quantitative benchmark, but not fast enough to aspire to the Top 10 list.
I have just updated the SCY list, and figured I would post it here for others to use.
Please enjoy. I'd also love to hear any feedback.
Chris, please don't forget to consider the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium:
p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1
p = recessive allele
q = dominant allele
p^2, q^2, and 2pq are percentages.
or the effect ofComplex (Imaginary) Numbers:
i = SQRT(-1)
i^2 = -1
1/i = -i
SQRT(i) = SQRT(1/2) + SQRT(1/2)i
or, for that matter, the occasionally bamboozling Frustum of Right Circular Cone
Volume = (1/3)PI(r^2 + rR + R^2)h
Lateral Surface Area = (PI)s(r + R)
Total Surface Area = PI
r = small radius
R = large radius
h = height
s = slant height = SQRT
I know that many of our current readers might find these possible cofounders unnecessarily complicated, but I think the only way to impress Mr. Ehoch and his fastidiously Germanic mathematical mindset is to be as detailed as possible.
Just so long as the bottom line conclusion here remains what we all know it to be: that given the various age, psychiatric, physical, and character weakness handicaps that I, Jim Thornton, personally suffer, math proves that I am clearly the best swimmer of all time when the proper mathematical adjustments have been factored in.
Thanks, Chris. And you, sir, are a very close No. 2!
As for you, Mr. Ehoch, you appear to be the best German now swimming in America in your age group with your knowledge of math.
Chris, please don't forget to consider the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium:
p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1
p = recessive allele
q = dominant allele
p^2, q^2, and 2pq are percentages.
or the effect ofComplex (Imaginary) Numbers:
i = SQRT(-1)
i^2 = -1
1/i = -i
SQRT(i) = SQRT(1/2) + SQRT(1/2)i
or, for that matter, the occasionally bamboozling Frustum of Right Circular Cone
Volume = (1/3)PI(r^2 + rR + R^2)h
Lateral Surface Area = (PI)s(r + R)
Total Surface Area = PI
r = small radius
R = large radius
h = height
s = slant height = SQRT
I know that many of our current readers might find these possible cofounders unnecessarily complicated, but I think the only way to impress Mr. Ehoch and his fastidiously Germanic mathematical mindset is to be as detailed as possible.
Just so long as the bottom line conclusion here remains what we all know it to be: that given the various age, psychiatric, physical, and character weakness handicaps that I, Jim Thornton, personally suffer, math proves that I am clearly the best swimmer of all time when the proper mathematical adjustments have been factored in.
Thanks, Chris. And you, sir, are a very close No. 2!
As for you, Mr. Ehoch, you appear to be the best German now swimming in America in your age group with your knowledge of math.
