This answers nothing. Please explain further. You’re presumably ok with the 200, 400, and 800 being 0.2, 0.4, and 0.8 kilometers, right? But 3200 should be replaced by 3K. Got it. It’s 8 laps just like the 200’s a half lap, the 400 is a full lap, and the 800 is 2 laps. What’s wrong with distanced being based on the track rather than full kilometers? half the distances are already that way.
Why run a 3200 or 1600 at all anyways, not a real distance, only run in the US by HS's.
the 3000 makes sense as well as the 1500, both are international distance races. If those aren't run they should run the mile and 2 mile, 3200 and 1600 are just typical lazy american choices.
They have run 3k at Penn since I was in high school since 1986. UVA had the Dogwood Relays back then and they ran 3k as well.
When athletes go to college they will never again run a 3200 or 1600. Those distances mean nothing to the rest of the world. Actually still sort of surprised they race those distances still. Would be better if they converted to 1500/3k which is what every other high school aged athlete in the world would be competing over.
Nobody in the world runs 1600/3200 except U.S. high schools. Strange holdover from the English distances. Even the Brits, who invented feet/yards/miles, don't run those distances.
Nobody in the world runs 1600/3200 except U.S. high schools. Strange holdover from the English distances. Even the Brits, who invented feet/yards/miles, don't run those distances.
That's not a holdover. The mile and 2 mile would be a holdover. The 1600/3200 are ba/stard distances that could only exist in the American education cult.
Nobody in the world runs 1600/3200 except U.S. high schools. Strange holdover from the English distances. Even the Brits, who invented feet/yards/miles, don't run those distances.
That's not a holdover. The mile and 2 mile would be a holdover. The 1600/3200 are ba/stard distances that could only exist in the American education cult.
I always sort of wondered why adding 2 starting lines to the track was so hard… guess educating the pe teacher to use a start line instead of counting to 4 was too much…
it is really too bad we didn’t standardize on 500m tracks. The 500 and 1k are far more enjoyable than the 400/800 in terms of massive rigging down the home stretch….