When/ why do meets ever choose to run events with the fastest heats first? It’s boring. Let the excitement build as the heats continually get faster. I just looked at the Bryan clay schedule and it makes no sense. It’s all over the place. Please explain. Thank you.
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When/ why do meets ever choose to run events with the fastest heats first? It’s boring. Let the excitement build as the heats continually get faster. I just looked at the Bryan clay schedule and it makes no sense. It’s all over the place. Please explain. Thank you.
I agree. Eliminates suspense and drama.
The one thing that it does it gives the actual fast runners a more accurate time of when their race is to better time their warmup.
Better for athletes, worse for spectators
I dont get it wrote:
When/ why do meets ever choose to run events with the fastest heats first? It’s boring. Let the excitement build as the heats continually get faster. I just looked at the Bryan clay schedule and it makes no sense. It’s all over the place. Please explain. Thank you.
As an athlete if you are in the fast section then you get a scheduled time. If there are 7 heats of the 5k and they go slow-fast, then the people in the fast heat don't know how fast the heats will go off, if some guy or girl will blow up and run a minute or 2 longer than appropriate or what not. Fast to slow, the fast runners get the scheduled time exactly, makes it easier to plan warm-ups, nutrition etc.
Actually for Bryan Clay its about fitting all the heats into the schedule. For example, they are not going to have the premier heat of the 5k run as the last heat at 11:20pm (and that time is assuming they stay exactly on schedule). Very easy to see that race starting past 11:30pm. Instead they put the slowest heat late and run the fastest heat at the more preferable time of 9:37pm.