The lights are a gimmick to attract more viewers to track. As the ballers will say, if you ain’t got game, it don’t matter what shoes you’re wearing (or lights you’re following).
Someone please prove to me that the lights made any difference in any performance.
All pacing should be illegal. People/lights,whatever. Trust me, it looks idiotic and it's cheating.
Overpriced - Better Solution wrote:
No need for anyone to drop more than $6 for the same thing but in a different form. Look up the PaceBeeper app on the IOS app store. Set any interval you want, any time you want, how often you want it to beep, and you have an audio sound. Every time it beeps, you should be at whatever pre determined distance you set it up for. Pretty standard to set it to 50m intervals, when you hear the sound you should be at one of the 50m marks on the track. If you can't keep pace over 50m and need a light to see the entire time your running, track might not be for you. Play it over loud speaker.
+1
That would be cheaper and more reliable than lights. Have a speaker every ten metres.
Overpriced - Better Solution wrote:
No need for anyone to drop more than $6 for the same thing but in a different form. Look up the PaceBeeper app on the IOS app store. Set any interval you want, any time you want, how often you want it to beep, and you have an audio sound. Every time it beeps, you should be at whatever pre determined distance you set it up for. Pretty standard to set it to 50m intervals, when you hear the sound you should be at one of the 50m marks on the track. If you can't keep pace over 50m and need a light to see the entire time your running, track might not be for you. Play it over loud speaker.
I've done this. It works, but I didn't have the cones close enough. I had them at, IIRC, every 50m. It was depressing to suddenly miss a split by 4-5 meters. If I try it again, I'll move the cones a lot closer together.
semi_pro wrote:
ienjoyracing wrote:
Wave light costs 20k??!! I promise you I could make my own with the help of Home Depot and a programmer friend for less than $500
For real. THIS ^
Honestly, why isn't there already a business out there where you just buy one of these light things, and then put it wherever you want it? Move it from track to track. Put it in a parking lot. Who cares? It is 400 meters of lights. As long as the last light connects to the first one, you know you have one total loop correct for timing.
I make apps for a living. Creating a super simple UI that would let you plug in the total distance and desired finish time would be crazy easy. Hell, you could make it "fancy" and tweak the lights to have negative or positive splits. 800 runners like positive splits. Milers like negative splits. Make the lights change colors for the last lap. There are tons of possibilities, here.
+1 I've done some coding for my major and I'm sure I could figure out how to make it work.