Ken - thanks for the heads up. FWIW - Pretty sure that the raw time is right, but something happened in the conversion (I had a parentheses problem). I got an 11:47 for his raw time - 11 * 60 + 47 = 707.

The conversion factor was what I posted earlier in the thread, a straight YtoM conversion (I think, I let google handle it). But I think this was not right - the "correct" one should be 0.9144.

So, the formula now yields a converted time for him of: 10:46

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Dude - solid swim! The conversion that I used yield 10:46 (just a straight distance one, no "swim" specific factors in there).

As noted, the straight conversion doesn't give quite the pop of the actual swim converters, but still a fast swim. If any of the other guns who have told me that they will be submitting times this week beats you, we can look at lodging a protest!

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Great swim Steve, for sure cooler water is better for these types of things.. And i think i see why i can stay with you out there in the wide open, i just use my superior run out to get ahead, you use your front end speed to get by me at the 1st buoy, and then i latch onto your 1;13 pace for the back half. And even in this swim where you trounced me, i still had that last 100 to come around you!!! HA!!!

You and Ken really held up the team, looks like a 36;29 for the 3 of us. I wish i had one more crack at it, really feel myself coming around these past weeks. But time to start the X-mas thing, heading to vegas tomorrow for some debauchery and hopefully winning poker..You guys have a great one too, let's do some big stuff after the new year..

And Robert, why don't you use the calculator that i posted up a few posts earlier?? Seems like you are cheating Bo out of several seconds by just converting distance only. I think that they have been around long enough to have worked out any of the bugs, so i would trust their results..

1500m for me today. Nice and easy. Did 6x200 on 4min and a 300cd.

Hey Monty - the only real obstacle to me is that I want it to be able to be hooked programmatically into the time routine - otherwise I have to track down the times and manually convert them. That said, I have not looked at your post, and so I will check it out and see if the time can be ported.

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Actually, it seems that I can not get it to do SCM, or rather, the SCM and LCM conversion to yards just yielded the same converted time. I kinda thought that 7 seconds per 100 at that rate of speed was a bit much to convert.

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Went something like 1:11, 2:28, 3:45, ... perhaps a 6:23 at 500 but I had completely lost track of time at that point, could barely see out of my foggy goggles, etc. Kept going to perhaps 700-800 but I really wasn't sure where I was at and just bagged it did 100 easy and left.//////////

Hey Duffman, you get a mulligan on that one. It really is not hard to capture your own splits, you just have to know about where you will be at certain points. I know what a 200 time should look like, and then usually check at the 500. And just look at the seconds, because you know the minutes are 6 already. Looks like you locked onto a 1;17 pace after blowing out the 1st 100, if you could have negative split it, we would have been close. I went out at 1;18 pace, but ended up with a 1;16 average by coming home at 1;14 pace.. Not ideal, but the least painful way for me at the moment..

You still have some days left, don't give up!!

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Works fine for me, not sure what you mean? Just plug in his time, SCM to SCY and hit convert. I get 10;33

Just using the straight conversion at < 3,000 ft asl, the routine converts 11:47 SCM into 10:36.9 . It also converts 11:47 Long Course Meters into the same time. Which makes me think that it might actually be using the LCM conversion for the SCM times -- as I thought it a tad quick, I would expect closer to 6 seconds per 100 for as fast as he is swimming.

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About 3:00 PM yesterday, my arms finally realized what they had done and became pretty much useless the rest of the day.

This morning, 200 yards felt great, then it started getting sluggish, so I thought short repeats/long rests were the ticket.

5x100 alt s/k left when I felt like it
10x50@:45 :29 - :34
5x100 alt s/k left when I felt like it
2x[25f/50bk/75br/100fr]@:10RI frees were 1:05/:06

2000 sc yardages

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Finally got a little love from my training. A glimmer of speed and pacing starts to show. 1,000 for time tonight, unless I feel really crappy, then I will postpone till tomorrow (the beauty of a postal).

WARMUP
1 X 600 PULL/R-ARM/L-ARM/SWIM 1.2.2.1
8 X 50 PULL ODD - BREATHE EV 2 ON RIGHT
EVEN - BREATHE EV. 2 ON LEFT
ON 1:00
10 X 25 ODD - LONG STROKE, EVEN - HIGH TURNOVER
AMRAN
MAIN SET
9 X 100 DESC. 1-3 ON 1:40/1:35/1:40
DRILL DOWN
1 X 50 EASY SWIM OUT
8 X 50 KICK w/FINS, DESC. 1-4 ON :55
1 X 200 EASY 25 DRILL / 25 BACKSTROKE
8 X 25 SWIM, BREATHE EVERY 7TH
1 X 100 EASY SWIM
Total: 3,100

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WU: 4x{50fr/25bkk}
6x{25fr/25bk}
300 pull
200 kick
10x{25bk/25br}
Main: 4x50 sprint on 1:30 {:29,:29,:31,:32}
2x{ 2x100, 200 pull, 2x100, 200 fast}
CD: 800 kwf

4200 scy. Felt dead after the first two 50 sprints :(

Getting ready to head out of town, so did a quick one in the SCM pool. Man i wish my tt was today, after two days out of the water i felt great, oh well..

3x(300/200/100/2x50IM order/100IM kick) 5;00/3;30/2;00/1;00/1;00/2;30 straight through last set pull

4;38/4;22/4;01/2;57/2;47/2;33/1;25/1;19/1;11 fly's 41/ back's 46's/ brst's 47's
8x50@1;00, 3 and 6 fly hard-- free's 43 to 40, flys 39/38
2800SCM

Ha! yeah, water was much cooler this morning. If I had only known it'd be this way, would have TT'd this AM. Oh well, still happy with my time, but I think there is more to be had. I miscounted and did an extra 50 and pushed it really hard. He went ahead and timed that 50 - :28.57. So, I wasn't all that deflated. Don't think I'll be trying again for this challenge, though.

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700 wu
200 pull mod
2x50 fast
2x100 build
rest
8x100 all out (30')

200cd

Good swim overall. Started out blazing fast (for me at least.)

200 pull- 3:28
50x2- 38's!!
100x2 build- 1:40's

8x100 all out- 1:37, 1:40, 1:41, 1:41, 1:43, 1:46, 1:46, 1:44

Still working on pacing. I think if I had started out more conservatively with the 200, 50's, and build 100's, I could have held 1:40. Great swim for me regardless.

400 warmup
50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 200 on 1:30 per 100m
4x200@ 3:00
4x400@ 6:00
12x 25 kick

3900 scm

Ha. Did my 1000TT 7pm on Saturday. 8am on Sunday did 50x100 averaging on 1:30/100. This morning:

12/19:

900 w/u

200 on 2:45
2x100 on 1:30
200 on 2:50
2x100 on 1:25
200 on 2:55
2x100 on 1:20
200 on 3:00
4x50 on 1:00 all out
100 ez

3x(100IM on 1:45, 2x50 free on 1:00)

3200scy

Then I spent 3+ hours installing a thirteen step stair runner.

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Today's session:

W/U: 4x (150 Free, 75 FlyBackBreast, 25 1 breath)

Main: 2 x (Free first go around, Pull on second): 400, 4x50 Fly/Free, 300, 3x 50 Back/Free, 200, 2x50 Breast/Free, 100, 1x50 Free)

Then 8x125 (odd 100k, 25 underwater no breath, evens 25 Fly, 100 swim).

5000scy

Ouch.

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That looks familiar. I did this one at lunch but we only did 4 x 125 w/fins at the end.

Main: 400s (5:01, 4:45 pull), 50s on 0:50 (coming in for all strokes around 0:40), 300s don't remember, 200s (2:25, 2:21 pull), 100s don't remember

4500 scy

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Oh yeah!

Are you in ATX??

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yep, though I'm moving next week... :(

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Oh yeah!

I pushed the channel button on the remote maybe 50 times, last night. All right-handed. Tonight I'll work the left hand.

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Hey man - did you enter this into the results page? I did not see it come up and want to make sure that "Old Guys Rule" gets their due. Hoping for a little "taper magic" myself tonight (or tomorrow if I feel crappy) - but since I have nothing to taper off of, I am not expecting any "wierd" feelings, only "intense" ones

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I did! Maybe it didn't take. Did I need to reenter all my info again? I did, or is there another way to add a better time?

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I just submitted again and it took. Thanks!!

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3500 lcm.

Main set was 6x350....50 for time/300 "recovery", then 100for time/250, 150/200, 200/150, 250/100, 300/50.
All on 1:00/50.

Rest of the distance was warm up and cooldown.