paul72 wrote:
bartholomew_maxipadwell wrote:
^Shows how stupid people are. I was doing 1600m with a fellow runner and we entered the homestretch in stride. He suddenly stopped with 100m to go. After finishing up the repeat, I jogged back thinking he may have pulled a muscle. I asked him what happened. He said his GPS indicated he had just covered a mile so he stopped. I had a good laugh.
yeah--all of a sudden after 120 years a mile isn't 4.02 laps...
4.02336 laps of a 400m track is 1 mile
I wonder, let's say someone runs a pr in a 5K race on the track in 20:00. 12.5 laps. Most times the watch will record more that 5000 meters even without much weaving. So if the watch says the person ran 5100 meters it would say the 5K time was about 19:40. Would the person say their PR is 19:40 and they could do it again. They might say that but they would be wrong.
Smoove wrote:
Every once in a while my Garmin will get a track mile pretty close - maybe 5 meters short.
More often, I’m 1/2 to 2/3rds If the way down the home straight away when it clicks over to the mile. Sometimes more.
When I ran a 5000m time trial on the track a couple weeks ago, my Garmin said I hit the full distance about 40ish meters from the finish. So mine usually tracks short.
But I only run with my GPS for the rough estimate of splits, heart rate data, and a lap counter. I almost always miscount the laps so my watch keeps me from either doing one too many or one too few laps. I only go by the actual markers, even if I weave around into other lanes.
Yes that's the point of the post, people are dumb
holpin wrote:
But depending on objectives,
Lol ok look the objective for these people in question was to run a 5k TT, because they referred to their run as such, and they failed in doing so, because they were staring at their watch rather than counting laps.
Please consider never posting again.
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