Anyone know about these would convert? I’m saying if I swim xx:xx in a 1650 SCY race, how would that compare to what I could do in an open water 1.5k split of a race? I’m saying ballpark. I know the 1650 is slightly longer, but just curious to see if anyone has had any experience with what they have gone in a 1650 and what they subsequently went in a 1500 during racing season. Thanks
Here’s a swimming conversion utility:
http://www.swiminfo.com/results/conversions.asp
This will give you a comparision between a 1650 short course vs a 1500 long course. These converstions are based on both the difference in distance and number of turns with a little voodoo through in based on analysis of comparable competition swims. They tend to be more accurate the better a swimmer you are.
Your open water time will depend on how straight you swim and how much it hurts (or helps 
not having turns.
cool beans…yeah not to mention that the 1500 swim is actually a 1500. Thanks, i was just curious.
I don’t think the converter that was posted will help you. It converts from unit of measure (yards to Meters) or distance of pool (25 or 50) to another. It does not convert from pool times to open water times, which is what you said you were looking for. While a 1500 LCM time should be more accurate than a 1650 SCY Time because of less turns it still won’t be very close to your open water swim times.
There are too many factors in open water swimming to get an accurate predictor from pool times to OW. Waves, Current, other competitors in your way and most importantly swimming off course all add up to slower times than pool times. Generally you can add 10-20% to your pool times a predictor for OW swim, but as you can see 10-20% is a big range.
Ballpark, I’ve found that a non-drafting, non-wetsuit 1500m swim converts reasonably well to a draft/wetsuit open water IM swim. For me, 1:20s lcm for a non-wetsuit, honest 1500m – 50 low drafting, fullsuit at IMNZ.
Another data point, when I was a 54 minute IM swimmer, I was around 14 minutes for an honest, non-wetsuit 1,000.
Perhaps not what you were looking for but maybe useful to the IMers on the board.
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Trust me, i understand the factors, especially after Nationals (yeah, that was a HUGE current…ha)…I was curious about personal experience from someone and what they found out about how their times compared to open water.
I’m not too speedy but I’ve found that my 1500yd SCY pool time equates pretty well with my 1500m open water race split. Being slow probably helps in this respect because you can’t help but draft.
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Well, I don’t really have a personal correlation yet. I just swam a 1650 yesterday, though, but my first Oly triathlon is not until June and by that time I’ll have much better swim fitness. So I’m hoping to beat my 1650 time.
I’ve had season where my OW 1.5K has varied by 2 minutes with basically the same swim fitness - I was swimming low 23’s for freshwater/non-wetsuit/minimal draft but then I got to nationals and swam low 21 for saltwater/non-wetsuit/huge draft.