2010 SCM Zone Championships

...lots of stuff cut for brevity...For what it's worth, I don't mind (too much) slowing down with age. But I would very much like to come up with a fair way to compare this year's times in a jammer with last year's times in a B70. For example, I got my lifetime best 200 SCY freestyle last spring, the first and only time in my life I have broken 1:55. This year, my best time (admittedly in a much worse pool) was a hair under 2:00. A 1:54.89 in a B70... followed four months later, after similar training, but in a much worse pool, untapered, etc., by.... A 1:59.81 in a jammer... I suppose I am just looking for some sort of succour here! If the difference in suits is 1 second per 100, then my high 1:59 is equivalent to a high 1:57. If the difference is 1.5 seconds per 100, then it becomes a high 1:56... It's one thing to accept the New Reality intellectually. But it's another thing to look at times you previously considered really, really horrible for you (and perhaps consider evidence that you are starting to get congestive heart failure or something similarly dire) and instantly feel okay about said new horrible times. On the other hand, if said new horrible times can be objectively shown to be, well, reasonably good, all things considered, then joy once again reigns unfettered in the Jimcentric Universe! ...more deletions What about this metric: Are you beating the people that you used to beat, and still getting beaten by the people who used to be faster than you?... or are there insufficient repeat competitions to get a statistically significant data set?

...lots of stuff cut for brevity...For what it's worth, I don't mind (too much) slowing down with age. But I would very much like to come up with a fair way to compare this year's times in a jammer with last year's times in a B70. For example, I got my lifetime best 200 SCY freestyle last spring, the first and only time in my life I have broken 1:55. This year, my best time (admittedly in a much worse pool) was a hair under 2:00. A 1:54.89 in a B70... followed four months later, after similar training, but in a much worse pool, untapered, etc., by.... A 1:59.81 in a jammer... I suppose I am just looking for some sort of succour here! If the difference in suits is 1 second per 100, then my high 1:59 is equivalent to a high 1:57. If the difference is 1.5 seconds per 100, then it becomes a high 1:56... It's one thing to accept the New Reality intellectually. But it's another thing to look at times you previously considered really, really horrible for you (and perhaps consider evidence that you are starting to get congestive heart failure or something similarly dire) and instantly feel okay about said new horrible times. On the other hand, if said new horrible times can be objectively shown to be, well, reasonably good, all things considered, then joy once again reigns unfettered in the Jimcentric Universe! ...more deletions What about this metric: Are you beating the people that you used to beat, and still getting beaten by the people who used to be faster than you?... or are there insufficient repeat competitions to get a statistically significant data set?