Nike Cross Regionals NY/NE

Times aren't good enough anymore? wrote:

What the he11 is a "speed rating"?

It is an adjusted time. Basically it is the actual time with a certain number of seconds added to it or subtracted from it to account for how fast or slow the course was running for that particular race. The actual speed rating is converted from a time to a number but it is still just and adjusted time.

Example: a runner runs a 16:00 and the course is determined to have run 30 seconds faster than the baseline. The time would be adjusted to 16:30 and then converted into a speed rating of 190. This just means that the adjusted time of 16:30 is 570 seconds (9:30) faster than a score of 0 which is equal to 26:00 or 1560 seconds. Each speed rating point is equal to 3 seconds, so 190*3 would be 570.

Thurl Ravenscroft wrote:

It is an adjusted time. Basically it is the actual time with a certain number of seconds added to it or subtracted from it to account for how fast or slow the course was running for that particular race. The actual speed rating is converted from a time to a number but it is still just and adjusted time.

Example: a runner runs a 16:00 and the course is determined to have run 30 seconds faster than the baseline. The time would be adjusted to 16:30 and then converted into a speed rating of 190. This just means that the adjusted time of 16:30 is 570 seconds (9:30) faster than a score of 0 which is equal to 26:00 or 1560 seconds. Each speed rating point is equal to 3 seconds, so 190*3 would be 570.

Something like that.

Deadstream wrote:

Thurl Ravenscroft wrote:

It is an adjusted time. Basically it is the actual time with a certain number of seconds added to it or subtracted from it to account for how fast or slow the course was running for that particular race. The actual speed rating is converted from a time to a number but it is still just and adjusted time.

Example: a runner runs a 16:00 and the course is determined to have run 30 seconds faster than the baseline. The time would be adjusted to 16:30 and then converted into a speed rating of 190. This just means that the adjusted time of 16:30 is 570 seconds (9:30) faster than a score of 0 which is equal to 26:00 or 1560 seconds. Each speed rating point is equal to 3 seconds, so 190*3 would be 570.

Something like that.

Exactly like that.

The speed rating number is the number of seconds faster than 26:00 divided by 3 after adjusting the original time.

So...... wrote:

old-dog wrote:

Dude...she won. What the hell is wrong with people?

Look, Tuohy is so much better than everyone else she can run at 70% and win. That means just because she wins doesn’t mean she’s running great. You could say she wasn’t running it all out, but she’s put in efforts of 173-175 in “workouts.” Her speed rating was 165 today. She was 175-177 consistently at the start and then ran a 172 speed rating all out at Rockland County Championships and hasn’t really run well since then. I understand the knee injury but she was slightly slipping before then. I’m just saying don’t expect Nats to be better than her early season races. She will win, just not by nearly as much as she would have 2 months ago.

Stop it. She has come back from injury and is running carefully in a slippery surface. She's managing herself very well.

Go back to sleep.

criticize her when she runs too fast too often, now criticize her when she doesn't!

Also, it was just a qualifying race. She had a huge lead and said she mentally shut down after the first mile. From my perspective I can't tell if she's not running well or just shut it down. Aisling Cuffe had a 157 speed rating in the 2010 Footlocker regionals qualifying and a 170 speed rating in the Footlocker finals.

Give some runners and coaches credit.....you don't go all out if the Nike Fianal is just 7 days away ---- December 1.

Most kids don't have the luxury of holding a little bit back.....

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