a couple of has-beens, a 37 year old (me) and another guy who is 50 plus are looking for bragging rights to 'fastest 1/2 miler in our dept. lol...what is the 800m to 880yd conversion?
a couple of has-beens, a 37 year old (me) and another guy who is 50 plus are looking for bragging rights to 'fastest 1/2 miler in our dept. lol...what is the 800m to 880yd conversion?
At constant pace, he "went through" 800m at 1:52.8, so he wins. Just in case you don't know yet, the hot secretary won't be impressed.
nobody will be impressed anyway. they wouldn't know a 155 from a 205 1/2 mile. he's old and fat now and i'm middle aged and chunky; but, I don't understand your answer. You are saying, with the conversion difference, his 1:53.5 880y is faster than my 1:52.8 800m? what would I add to my 800m time (or what would you subtract from an 880y) to get the answer?
I say it's within the 0.1 uncertainty
1:52.8 is 1:53.46 pace ... and the differential (0.7 second for 4.672m) is 15.0/100m pace ... I would say the rate of slowing at that level at 800m is more like 16s/100m ... but 0.8s differential would be 17.1s/100m ... so I would say you are tied within the uncertainty of your times (uncertainty of 0.1 since 1:52.8 can be anywhere from 1:52.71 to 1:52.80)
880 yards, at a constant pace, converts to 1:52.84 for 800 meters. You must consider the significant digits and round down to 1:52.8. Considering he had further to run, it can be assumed he would break 1:52.8 if he wanted to during his race for 800 meters.
If you don't want to consider that, then you both are tied to the tenth.
If you guys kept running and lifted weights would you look alright? I guess I don't understand how or why people let themselves go. My 800m pr is only 1:58 but I still train at 29. I take my wife and kid out to the track or gym. You should see if you can break 2 again.
you must race him in a 100m dash on a side street by your office. A car backfires before the gun, you catch a flyer and win!
luker wrote:
If you guys kept running and lifted weights would you look alright? I guess I don't understand how or why people let themselves go. My 800m pr is only 1:58 but I still train at 29. I take my wife and kid out to the track or gym. You should see if you can break 2 again.
Uh...junior; at 29 I was still running for a track club and running close to 4 minutes in the mile and under 14 for 5k. I guess I don't understand why you aren't still racing and getting better at 29. Touche.
If your time was FAT and his was hand-timed then it should buy you the lead back, since there's usually a +.14 for hand timing. And while you're at it ask him if clocks really had a decimal place "way back then"...
his 1:53.5 880 was definitely hand timed in 1973. My 1:52.81 was fot. does that make any difference? What would his hand timed 1:53.5 880 convert to for an 800m?
The "constant pace" assumption then converts to 1:52.98, because then you add .14 to his time and multiply it by 800/.3048/3/880.
who was faster wrote:
Uh...junior; at 29 I was still running for a track club and running close to 4 minutes in the mile and under 14 for 5k. I guess I don't understand why you aren't still racing and getting better at 29. Touche.
Well, I'm pretty busy being a dentist and being with my family. My marks from the past year were 1:59.6 for 800m, 1:12 for half-marathon and 2:31 for the marathon. I guess it's average, so maybe you were in better shape than me at 29. Have a good day at the office, chunky worker bee.
Ask him if he ran his race on a cinder track. Some people were still doing that in some places in the 70's.
If it was a cinder track, then his performance is far superior even if the times are almost equal.
uh...hardly a worker bee. try dept. mgr., with an MBA making 150k a year. I'm doing fine, thank you.
not me wrote:
Ask him if he ran his race on a cinder track. Some people were still doing that in some places in the 70's.
If it was a cinder track, then his performance is far superior even if the times are almost equal.
yes. he did say it was on a cinder track; but, technically you can't throw that in when doing 800/880 conversions for record keeping purposes, for example, though in reality, you are correct.
luker wrote:
If you guys kept running and lifted weights would you look alright? I guess I don't understand how or why people let themselves go. My 800m pr is only 1:58 but I still train at 29. I take my wife and kid out to the track or gym. You should see if you can break 2 again.
'lurker just comes onto threads, either insults people or brags, (he did both on this thread), while not even addressing the thread's question. Sounds like he needs an 'atta boy' at work or at home.
i call a BIG bulltits on shit brick that says he was running 4 minute miles. and no way in hell he is making 150$ a year.
who was faster wrote:
yes. he did say it was on a cinder track
Case closed. He wins.
who was faster wrote:
uh...hardly a worker bee. try dept. mgr., with an MBA making 150k a year. I'm doing fine, thank you.
Trust me. You're a worker bee.
And, at 37, there's no reason you should be so far out of shape...