Grant Fisher does it - Runs 3:59.38!!

This Just In... wrote:

Mercury-Chronicle just published a much deeper story on Fisher and what the race means for him and the sport:

http://www.mercury-chronicle.com/?p=21459

"The insanity of it all is that had he run 62 hundredths of a second slower, these same cheering fans would have gasped in disappointment at the finish instead of cheering. Many of the voices on the Internet would have labeled him a failure."

Looks like the author is familiar with LetsRun.

Official Splits wrote:

Official results with splits can be found here:

http://mo.milesplit.com/meets/211345/results/381588

Presumably the first split is for 409m, but they were 62.176, 59.983, 58.793, 58.424

Using those splits,

3:58.6 was his capability

0x27 wrote:

This Just In... wrote:

Mercury-Chronicle just published a much deeper story on Fisher and what the race means for him and the sport:

http://www.mercury-chronicle.com/?p=21459

"The insanity of it all is that had he run 62 hundredths of a second slower, these same cheering fans would have gasped in disappointment at the finish instead of cheering. Many of the voices on the Internet would have labeled him a failure."

Looks like the author is familiar with LetsRun.

Good stuff. A nice break from the over-the-top GIVE US MONEY! hype that were getting from Flotrack. I mean, this guy (writer) sounds like he might actually understand running. Tho would love to see more personal stuff on Fisher. We know who Maton went to prom with!

The splits being published leave a lot to be desired, because having a 409m split is pretty darn weird, and it makes figuring out the quarters unnecessarily hard. The milesplit folks had access to the starting line splits if they had only checked. That, and a little basic math, can give you fairly accurate 440y splits.

Fisher's FAT times from the starting line were 400-60.75, 800-2:00.71, 1200--2:59.57. Extrapolating between those and the finish line splits would give him quarter splits of 61.1, 2:01.5 (60.4), 3:00.6 (59.1) and 58.8. First half 2:01.5, second 1:57.9. I think it's best to express these in tenths, because they are extrapolations and there wasn't actually a picture at 440y, 880y, 1320y.

Still, they make a heck of a lot more sense for someone trying to figure out how Fisher paced his race. 409m? Sheesh.