Walter Dix runs 400m relay in 45.24 ---beats Ricardo Chambers

Might be the most talented athlete in track and field.

yeah. either him or webb.

Guess he recovered from his strep throat

fathead wrote:

I clocked Dix at 45.24 and a freind clocked chambers at 45.93.

You meant to write:

"I clocked Dix at 45.3 and a freind clocked chambers at 46.0."

I can't believe how so many people who actually participate in this sport are so f***ing clueless.

wait, why would you round up .24 again? If I remember elementary school correctly, don't you round down if it's under five?

Always round up to the next tenth.

Always round up for hand timing.

Watch out, the Time Nazi will get you too. Hand times are always rounded up to the next tenth. Even 45.21 would become 45.3. Unless his split was timed electronically, in which case it would remain 45.24. Hand times are not valid past the tenths place.

hey murphy, maybe you should have a little class, instead of acting like you have a stick up your ass.

get a life you retard.

However you are supposed to round to the nearest tenth and add .24, so perhaps that is where the 45.24 came from, but if that is the case you would not have the .93 unless he meant to type .94

Walter Dix split 45 low.

Not bad.

Why does adjusting the time for hand timing matter when you're only using the numbers to compare between two hand timed splits? Adding .24 to both and rounding up doesn't change which one was faster and will only result in more error as far as the difference between the times (ie, what we are really concerned with for the purposes of this post).

fathead wrote:

Walter Dix ran the second leg of the 4x4 at the Snowbird Invitational yesterday. He got the handoff slightly ahead of Ricardo Chambers but Chambers passed him just before the 200m mark. Going around the final turn, it was obvious that Dix was just waiting for the last straightaway, sitting right behind Chambers. As soon as they reached the final straight, Dix moved out to lane 2 and just blew by Chambers. I clocked Dix at 45.24 and a freind clocked chambers at 45.93. Dix is clearly ready for some fast times this season.

I'm a huge fan of Dix. I just love Dix.

Carl Lewis wrote:

I'm a huge fan of Dix. I just love Dix.

lol, funny..

on another note.. if he wasnt well enough to run at nats, we know he wasnt practicing or anything... so he ran that after probably 1 1/2 weeks of inactivity... that is very impressive! possible 44.5* later this yr???

bevestilmar wrote:

yeah. either him or webb.

No...not Webb. Just let it be. A sprinter can get SOME love on this board. Couldn't let it go, could you?

Ok, then it's probably Wariner.

In regard to the rounding of numbers, my freind and I took the splits from the middle of the exchange zone to the starting line(they were running the second leg). Our stop watches read 45.24 and 45.93. If you wan't to round the numbers, power to you but that is what we clocked them at.

The 0.24 seconds is to account for reaction (and distance from) the gun at the start, while you can anticipate and peg the finish. However, in leg two of the relay, you can peg both of them. There is still a fair bit of error, so you can think of the time as 45.24 +/- 0.15, but 45.24 is still a better estimator of the time than rounding it to 45.3. Let the time Nazi's shoot at me, but I know more stats than many of them.

not to be a dickhead but its the 1600m relay