Is it true that 1500m was invented by wimps who couldn't run a full turn at the start of the race?
Is it true that 1500m was invented by wimps who couldn't run a full turn at the start of the race?
According to Wikipedia-
"The 1500 m came about as a result of running three laps of a 500m track, which was commonplace in continental Europe in the 20th century."
At this point, even tho tracks are standardized at 400m, it would be a shame to mess with the distance and lose all of that continuity going back to the 1st Olympics. If you switched to 1600 or something like that, you couldn't compare current 1500 races with all of the great races in the past.
but you could compare mile times going all the way back into antiquity. so there!
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Serious Answerer wrote:
According to Wikipedia-
"The 1500 m came about as a result of running three laps of a 500m track, which was commonplace in continental Europe in the 20th century."
At this point, even tho tracks are standardized at 400m, it would be a shame to mess with the distance and lose all of that continuity going back to the 1st Olympics. If you switched to 1600 or something like that, you couldn't compare current 1500 races with all of the great races in the past.
why'd they have the 800 instead of the 1000 then and the 400 instead of the 500?
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dude ive been wondering this for years. 1600m should be the metric mile, it makes no sense otherwise. 400, 800, 1600. Nice and neat.
Gotta say the 1500 is my favourite event but I would love to see a mile instead of the 1500 at the Olympics.
totsmagots wrote:
dude ive been wondering this for years. 1600m should be the metric mile, it makes no sense otherwise. 400, 800, 1600. Nice and neat.
Then what? Should we have 3200m, 6400m, and 12800m?
We would surely have more people talking about how the 12800m distance makes no sense than the number complaining about 1500m.
Doubling the previous distance and running races that make full laps makes sense under 1k in the metric system, but over 1K it makes much more sense to run round numbers of kilometers like 1.5, 3, 5, 10 and not 1.6, 3.2, 6.4, 12.8.
ignorant turd wrote:
but you could compare mile times going all the way back into antiquity. so there!
But the mile fits on a 400 meter track even more oddly than the 1500m. Instead of 3.75 laps, you would run 4.02336 laps on a 400m track to make a mile.
Or if you run 1600 meters, the only history you get are some American high schools.
Why the need to start and finish at the same place?
A 1500m fits just fine on any track.
Mr. Obvious wrote:
Or 300m tracks? Maybe that 300m track at Dempsey makes sense after all.
See! Yes! Quit bitching about this "illegal" track.
It's fine how it is. Why are you bored idiots trying to reinvent the wheel?
Maybe you weren't replying to me, but I was supporting the 1500 distance. The mile isn't a better alternative for a 200m or 400m track (and is also an archaic or foreign measurement in much of the world) and the 1500 has a lot of history in international and now American collegiate history -- more than 1600 -- and without a better alternative, there's no reason to change, just because it involves a .75 lap of a 400m track.
migo wrote:
Mr. Obvious wrote:Or 300m tracks? Maybe that 300m track at Dempsey makes sense after all.
See! Yes! Quit bitching about this "illegal" track.
Isn't Dempsey 307m? That makes no goddamn sense.
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The whole thread is stupid what do you expect. I fully understand the metric system umlike you lot still bloody measuring throws and jumps in feet, running the 1600m, 3,200m & talking about full miles
Oxford and Cambridge, arguably founders of the sport, had 1/3 mile tracks. (Oxford's had a dip and a hill in it too). Bannister's main act as club president was to tear it up and go for 400m.
If he had been an artist rather than a medic, would he have gone for yards?
ignorant turd wrote:
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Traveller wrote:
kenyans grow up on the plains
americans grow up on the tracks
I think its obvious which produces better results
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