Results are in! The Office Race - from 2 weeks ago....

In all honestly, those are decent times given the prep involved. The race between the young one and your boss would have been interesting if they'd started at the same time.

Good luck in 2 months.

so you were pretty much the slowest guy on the day?

You lost.

I think even your boss may have lost with that time.

Next time, base the head starts on the results from the first race.

Yes - we may need to re-examine the handicaps when starting the next race. Although - the young guy has come up w/a new race he wants to try. 50m running backward, then 50m running forward vs. my 100m running forward. We'll see. I know for sure we will run the 400 again. It was painful but fun.

Man I'd be so pissed at the boss. This was supposed to be a competition between you and your buddy and this guy jumps in, demands an 80m headstart and then destroys you both. If you all had run the whole 400m it actually seems like it would have been pretty close. At 200 I thought the young guy was gonnna destroy it

Is this Mrs. Wejo's voice cheering you on?

Cool. Office bets are often some of the most fun races. I had a couple of those at my last place of work - fun. Current place, not so much - too many unfit office people.

I'm surprised that the age handicap only applied to the two older racers, which is a bit much to overcome, unless the cornerback(who looks too heavy to be a cornerback, more like a linebacker) was too cocky in insisting that.

I agree with the previous poster regarding reseting the handicap for the next race based on the current result.

From the current result:

28 yr old: 400m/61.5s = 6.50m/s

34 yr old: 366m/58.0s = 6.31m/s

41 yr old: 359m/56.5s = 6.35m/s

For 56.5 sec, 58 sec, and 61.5 sec, you are looking at final deficits of +1.5 sec and +3.5 sec or 9.75m and 22.75m respectively (using each individual's speed: 1.5s * 6.31m/s =9.47m and 3.5s * 6.5m/s = 22.75m).

In other words, the 28 yr old made up 18.25m(41m - 22.75) and the 34 yr old lost ground by 2.47m (final deficit of 9.47m - original deficit of 7m)

Therefore, one way to restructure the deficit would be having the 34 yr old first, followed by the 41 yr old by 2.75m handicap, then the 28 yr old by 18.25m handicap with respect to the 34 yr old.

Of course you can introduce some fudge factors. For example, I think the new handicap of 2.75m between 34yr and 41 yr is pretty accurate because these two runners were pretty neck to neck to each other during the race and the result was a good reflection of their speed. But you might want to extend the handicap a bit for the 28yr because he most likely have slowed down quite a bit, knowing that it was impossible to make up such big handicap.

p.s. the math is done at hast, so you might want to double-check.

Looks like you had fun. And it's a good looking facility--where is it?

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Looks like you had fun. And it's a good looking facility--where is it?

That looks like the SMU track in Dallas

Yes its the SMU track.

Voice on the video was some woman there at the track who was about to start her workout and was nice enough to help out w/the filming.