I know that there are sites/programs and maybe even tables out there for converting times from yards to meters.
But do they work for everyone?
last april I was able to swim a 200 yard pushing it hard but not max for a 2:03 which according to one site would mean I could swim roughly 2:17 at practice in a meters pool. today i pushed a 200 and hit the wall at 2:25 or so.
I started thinking about it for the rest of practice and decided that my yards times are much faster than my meters time converted because my body type benefits greatly from taking 2-4 less strokes/length as well as getting that break on the turn earlier.
anyone have recent times in yards and meters that could test any of the converting sites and see if they are even close.
here's the one I use more often
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../conversions.asp
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The better your turn relative to your stroke, the faster your times will be relative to the distance. Make sense?
If you have a fast flip, catapults for legs, a great streamline and some killer dolphin kicks, but are mediocre at the actual "swimming" part, you will rank from best to worst scy, scm, lcm. If the opposite is true, and your strength is swimming, not making use of walls, your best to worst course would be lcm, scm and scy.
The well balanced swimmer will have the most accurate conversions. If your LCM time converts faster than your SCM time, your stroke is better than your turns, while if your SCM converts faster than your SCM time, your turns are better than your stroke.
My 50 LCM times convert to times much faster than my best SCY time, which tells me there is easy improvements to be made by focusing on improving my walls, especially since my training usually gets lighter during the summer because of decreased lane space, and I spend 10 months of the year training SCY.
The better your turn relative to your stroke, the faster your times will be relative to the distance. Make sense?
If you have a fast flip, catapults for legs, a great streamline and some killer dolphin kicks, but are mediocre at the actual "swimming" part, you will rank from best to worst scy, scm, lcm. If the opposite is true, and your strength is swimming, not making use of walls, your best to worst course would be lcm, scm and scy.
The well balanced swimmer will have the most accurate conversions. If your LCM time converts faster than your SCM time, your stroke is better than your turns, while if your SCM converts faster than your SCM time, your turns are better than your stroke.
My 50 LCM times convert to times much faster than my best SCY time, which tells me there is easy improvements to be made by focusing on improving my walls, especially since my training usually gets lighter during the summer because of decreased lane space, and I spend 10 months of the year training SCY.
