Comments on: Recording Swimming Splits

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:52:00 +0000

Mark: send it to me if you like - rob@vangelder.co.nz

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:07:00 +0000

Help!

I too have a similar problem. I am making a graph to help my daughter see her 500 yard free style visually so she can see where she needs to pick up her time in order to reach desired cuts. I have broken the race up into 20×25 yard segments but I am struggling with the formats like many on this page. I could send the spread sheet to someone and use Snag It to show what I am trying to do.......if any of you math wizards here could please help me it would be greatly appreciated

By: Wim Gielis

Wim Gielis — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:59:00 +0000

Hello all

I just updated 2 of my Excel files:

- a file with all major SWIMMING records: men/women - long course/short course - all distances - World/American/European/Oceania/African/Asian/Olympic/Championship/Belgian record. For each record: time/holder/nationality/city/country/date

- a file with all major ATHLETICS records: men/women - outdoor/indoor - all events - World/American/European/Oceania/African/Asian/Olympic/Championship/Belgian record. For each record: time/holder/nationality/city/country/date

Sources: various websites, including IAAF, FINA, Wikipedia, ...

I put it on my website, but the site is in Dutch, so feel free to email me if you want a copy via email. wimmekegielis@hotmail.com

I also store the data in TM1 cubes (see http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/tm1/); I am a BI consultant mainly working with TM1.

Cheers,

Wim Gielis
AKA Wigi on various Excel boards

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:10:00 +0000

Correction to the previous post. It should read
=FLOOR("5/"&DAY(MINUTE(YEAR(B1)/38)/2+56)&"/"&YEAR(B1),7)-34
I had adjusted it to find Good Friday which is two days earlier.

Sorry for the extra posts, feel free to consolidate.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:09:00 +0000

I found this formula which is useful for Eater too.
=FLOOR("5/"&DAY(MINUTE(YEAR(B1)/38)/2+56)&"/"&YEAR(B1),7)-36

The web site is http://www.cpearson.com/excel/holidays.htm

It is fun to see the different approaches.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:02:00 +0000

Thank you for posting the date functions, they saved me some time and I like the logic. I found this formula for Memorial Day to useful.

=DATE(YEAR($S$1),5,32-(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR($S$1),5,31),2)))

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:46:00 +0000

Chuck -

Unless you're using the 1904 date system (and don't), date formats cannot handle negative numbers. Do a check first, like

=IF(A1>A2,A1-A2,A2-A1)

Or put these into adjacent cells:

=if(A1>A2,A1-A2,"")
=if(A1>A2,"",A2-A1)

By: Chuck Thompson

Chuck Thompson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:15:00 +0000

Thanks Jon,

Question, when I use that format and leave it as a date/time as excel formats it, I get errors when performing calculations that have negative numbers. I think it has something to do with a negative value and the time format. Any suggestions?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:28:00 +0000

Chuck -

That is how Excel internally stores your racing split. Leave it the way it is in the formula bar, and rest assured that you can format it as necessary through the custom number format.

By: Chuck Thompson

Chuck Thompson — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:49:00 +0000

I’m all good with the mm:ss.00, however, excel converts the data into a date and time for instance 1:45.87 is shown in the edit bar as 12:01:46 AM, I don’t want a time, i want just pure minutes, seconds and tenths of seconds, did I miss something?