Swim Golf in 50m pool?
I have a question about Swim Golf scores. I haven't raced recently enough to compare my times to the "good" race times listed at the beginning of the swim ebook. When I read about Swim Golf, it says good is a score of about 80 (40 strokes in 40 seconds in 50 yards).
I am wondering how this translates to swimming in a 50 meter pool (where I normally swim). I think 50 yards is about 45 meters, so I know I need to consider that, but my main question is if there is a wall turn included in the calculation of 80 (because the turn would seem to lessen your stroke count...and pushing off could lessen your time).
I realize this is a asking for a lot of specificity, but I really wondered it as I swam for an hour today counting strokes in the 50 meter pool. Thanks!
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My guess for a rough estimate would be ... 20% more strokes for one length in a long course 50 meter pool than 50 yds in a short course 25 yd pool. 10% for the difference between yds and meters, and another 10% for the 5 yds you are not stroking while pushing off the wall.
Thanks for taking the time to think it through with me.
If you type "swim time converter" into google, you will find any number of web based calculators for that because the competive swimmers have to do the same thing. But a round rule of thumb is that the 50 m time is (25 scy) x 1.1 (m vs yds) + ~1.5 sec per turn you don't get to do. This (as Al implies) is because you come off the wall fast. If you do really good or really bad turns, that adjustment could vary.
So 60 second (1 minute) 100 scy free turns into 66 for the distance plus ~3 sec for the two fewer turns = about 69 seconds.