There were monitors on other athletes too. It's dumb and serves no purpose other than product placement. It's also added weight - even a minimal amount is unnecessary and something more to carry around the track that may impact performance. The longer the race the greater the impact. Athletes would be wise to decline. I always thought Jordan Hasay would have been faster without carrying extra weight from long hair braid. Shoe weight makes a difference too. Travel as light as possible.
yup. i find it at least slightly interesting, if nothing else.
I agree. It's an interesting piece of information for the spectator.
Huh, it seems absolutely useless to me. It makes no difference to anything, sort of like reporting the millimeters of sweat per minute for each runner or something equally useless. Even looking at a competitor’s HR after the race tells a racer nothing at all useful or interesting.
streaming your HR is a bad idea. Your opponent's coach may pick up the stream and watch your HR and give cues to their athlete to surge when you are maxing out.
It would have been more interesting if they'd left the HR data up for the entire race. So you could see how quickly it ramped up from the start to whatever steady state HR they ran at during the race. Then would be interesting to see if it spiked up when they started really kicking or if it basically stayed the same.
But they just flashed it up once or twice for a second and so it was a completely useless metric.
The worst thing about this broadcast (among many terrible things) is the complete lack of splits, discussion of the pace (which would require splits), and then they don't put the finishing times up at the end of the race. After the mens 100m final I was curious how fast Miller ran and they never showed the times so I had to go to USATF website to find out.
Competitive runners don't typically just stand around right before their race. They do a warmup so their heartrate and oxygen circulation is elevated when the gun goes off. If they were to start the race at a completely rested state, they would struggle with oxygen debt by the end of the first lap as their heartrate tries to play catch up.
It would have been more interesting if they'd left the HR data up for the entire race. So you could see how quickly it ramped up from the start to whatever steady state HR they ran at during the race. Then would be interesting to see if it spiked up when they started really kicking or if it basically stayed the same.
But they just flashed it up once or twice for a second and so it was a completely useless metric.
The worst thing about this broadcast (among many terrible things) is the complete lack of splits, discussion of the pace (which would require splits), and then they don't put the finishing times up at the end of the race. After the mens 100m final I was curious how fast Miller ran and they never showed the times so I had to go to USATF website to find out.