CSS Test for swimming

Triathlon Forum
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Question for those of you that have used the CSS calculator on Swimsmooth.com for swim training. Can someone enlighten me as to how someone who swims a slower test for the 400 and 200 can have a faster CSS number than someone who swims the 400 and 200 faster? For example: input the following times into the calculator from the swimsmooth website below and you get a faster CSS for the slow test than you do for the faster test:

http://www.swimsmooth.com/training.html

slow test times: 400=6:19, 200=3:14
faster times: 400=6:15, 200=2:55

I’m not questioning it, I’m just wondering why.

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Great photo on that site with the gal in the red cap over rotating to breathe.

Use the tables on the 2nd link

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=ms-android-samsung&source=android-browser-type&v=133247963&sa=X&ei=-NwpT5X-CvDZiAKlzpDTCg&ved=0CB0QvwUoAA&q=jon+urbanchek&spell=1&biw=240&bih=339

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Your answer lies in the definition of CSS and the faster speed fall-off rate of the faster swimmer in your example.

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Maybe this post will answer the question:
http://swimsmoothperth.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/common-query-about-css-results.html
Response to the same question from the Swimsmooth squad, we just did the 200/400 CSS test about a month ago.