seems like a computer chip in the shoes could be used to detect contact, to spot a running motion vs. walking?
seems like a computer chip in the shoes could be used to detect contact, to spot a running motion vs. walking?
I could get down with that.
The 5000m seems superfluous. 6400 is a good place in between the 5 &10.
Waterloo1815kgl wrote:
seems like a computer chip in the shoes could be used to detect contact, to spot a running motion vs. walking?
Not so easy. It would need a very high accuracy of time synchronization and therefore periodic communication between the two chips, which would make it power hungry and therefore add weight that runners may not want; plus it would be near impossible to guarantee no false positives given how close walkers tend to push the boundaries. A human eye is not more accurate, just less blamable because of the implicit rule in all sports that the referee is always right.
No defense for it wrote:
Let’s have a contest to see who can go from point A to point B the fastest while intentionally going slow. Sounds awesome!
Such an event exists in track cycling, but it's treated as a comedic sideshow: