I ran a PR in the relay! wrote:
Dutch Sprinter wrote:
You don't do splits by when they hand off, you do them by when the baton crosses the plane of 400m. So the last two legs are really easy to split. You just watch the baton, and when it cross the finish/start line you split. Doesn't matter who has it in their hand.
It's funny how many times I've had to explain that to high school coaches.
It's actually the person holding the baton rather than the baton itself, but yeah. The first 3 legs usually have a change at thee end of their leg, not the 4th which should be the quickest with a running start and running through the finish line.