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Subject: How to calculate minutes/100 yards
I must be doing it wrong because what I calculate for minutes/100 yards on a race is always different than what the results list for my pace.

For instance, today I did a half iron-man swim in 35:34. My math says:

35:34 = 35.566s (34/60 = .566, formatting the seconds as a decimal)
1.2 mi = 2100 y = 21 (100 yard units)

minutes / 100y = 35.566 (minutes) / 21 (100 yard units)
= 1.69 minutes/100y (1:41 formatted as minute:second instead of a decimal)

The results list my pace as 1:59. That seems wrong even with just a high level view. If I swam roughly 2 minutes per 100 yards, then it would take me 42 minutes to swim 2100 yard, which is longer than my time.

So maybe the swim wasn't 2100 yards? If I solve for yards assuming I swam 1:59m/100y for 35.5 minutes, that means the swim was 1775y. That's too short for 1.2 mi and the race directory said it was spot on 1.2 mi.

Am I doing math wrong!??!


2014-09-07 8:09 PM
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Subject: RE: How to calculate minutes/100 yards

No. Your doing the math correct.  The distance was likely incorrect.  Kind of difficult to accurately measure distance in open water, even using GPS.  Plus your swim time likely includes time spent going from the water to the timing mat going into T1.



Edited by k9car363 2014-09-07 8:12 PM
2014-09-07 8:28 PM
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Subject: RE: How to calculate minutes/100 yards
Just a thought. Could the results pace be listed in meters 1:59/100m would be 1:59/110yds, which would come out to about 1.44/100yds.
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