Ballsack wrote:
I appreciated the math lesson, but not the "4th grade," insult.
Just because it comes easy to you does not mean that it's easy for the rest of the world, and that is why my name is ballsack!
Don't worry, bro. I can assure you that the world's 10 fastest track runners have zero understanding of this math as well.
Es Verdad wrote:
Frat House Runner wrote:4.54m/lane/lap I think
This means that Montano would have still been leading the race coming off the final curve if she had stayed on the rail. Insane, simply insane.
Nope, I think she backed off. She ran wide in lane one most of the way, then eased. She was the architect of her own disaster.
Accuracy guaranteed wrote:
Frat House Runner wrote:7.66/lane/lap
Standard lane is 1.22m as per IAAF
200 = 2*Ï€r
Solve for R and add 1.22, solve for C and you get 207.66
Assumes turns are 100m. A track like Franklin Field, the turns will be longer so the distance further.
Sorry, completely incorrect. It makes no difference whether the turns are 80m, 100m, 115.611m or 140m. It also makes no difference whether the turns are semicircles or 4 rounded corners. If you think you know how wide a runner is running, it makes no difference what the lane width is. It can even be a 200m or a 500m track. If someone is running one meter wide, they're running 6.28m/lap extra.
Learn geometry, kids! Study your STEM.
Wut?!
I think you flunked geometry.
Your idea has merit.
If a person runs with the best runners all season, theoretically he should get closer and closer to their ability by the end of the season. I coached runners who experimented with this and a few did see some improvement.
At the high school level it is easy to get them to "go out hard." The hard thing is to get them to run even pace. I have never found that a kid ran worse that way. Front running is foolish, especially at the high school level.
Everyone wants to do things their way, I usually let them experiment with racing strategies, but advised them on running even pace. The 800 may be a bit different, but then again maybe we need a few more Dave Wottles' as in the 1972 Olympics.
Wottle ran 26, 26, 26, 26 but he did this because he was injured, it was totally an accident.
Sometimes that is what it takes to get people to believe that running even pace works. They have to get injured to find out that it works.
Post Hole Digger wrote:
Accuracy guaranteed wrote:Sorry, completely incorrect. It makes no difference whether the turns are 80m, 100m, 115.611m or 140m. It also makes no difference whether the turns are semicircles or 4 rounded corners. If you think you know how wide a runner is running, it makes no difference what the lane width is. It can even be a 200m or a 500m track. If someone is running one meter wide, they're running 6.28m/lap extra.
Learn geometry, kids! Study your STEM.
Wut?!
I think you flunked geometry.
It seems that some of children were left behind despite my best efforts. The geometry or the size of the closed circuit is irrelevant.
HardwareHank wrote:
I once witnessed a girls high school 3200 where two runners ran side by side in lane one for the entire race. One girl was always on the inside of the other girl. Their order never changed.
Then in the home stretch, the girl on the inside position won by about 10 yards or so.
I read or heard somewhere that a person doing what the outside girl did, ran at least 50 extra yards by taking that outside position. Does anyone know where I could find that information again or do you think it is false?
This is where high school geometry would be your friend...
http://www.coachdino.org/trackcalc.htm#E