Ok, so the more they email me, the more I get nervous about the water temp. Last year it was 69 which stung to get in, but it made for a nice swimming temp. By the end, though, my fingers and toes felt a little numb, but that could have been tired (??).
But this year, it could be up to 10 degrees colder?! What to do when the coolest water I can find here in Cincinnati is 80?
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I think you've got the second and third columns reversed here. And, of course, one column is pace per 100 yards and the other is pace per 100 meters. On a percentage basis, here's how much slower each of these swimmers' pace was at Big Shoulders than in their best 2009 1650: 3, 21, 21, 17, 15, 15, 15, 17, 13. Purely based on the difference in length between yards and meters the expected difference would be 9%.
Last year's event was against a headwind, though, so everyone was slower. Yeah, it's too bad he didn't swim this year for a better comparison. Anyway, I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion. Alan has beaten me enough in open water that it can't just be a fluke!
Yeah I swapped the collumn headers. Fixed that. I didn't convert the yards to meters because the real valuable statistics (Correlation and Variance) do not require convesion to be accurate. But it is interesting to point out that 8 out of the 9 were considerably slower yards to yards (of course the were!).
I think you've got the second and third columns reversed here. And, of course, one column is pace per 100 yards and the other is pace per 100 meters. On a percentage basis, here's how much slower each of these swimmers' pace was at Big Shoulders than in their best 2009 1650: 3, 21, 21, 17, 15, 15, 15, 17, 13. Purely based on the difference in length between yards and meters the expected difference would be 9%.
Last year's event was against a headwind, though, so everyone was slower. Yeah, it's too bad he didn't swim this year for a better comparison. Anyway, I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion. Alan has beaten me enough in open water that it can't just be a fluke!
Yeah I swapped the collumn headers. Fixed that. I didn't convert the yards to meters because the real valuable statistics (Correlation and Variance) do not require convesion to be accurate. But it is interesting to point out that 8 out of the 9 were considerably slower yards to yards (of course the were!).
