Doing workout on a wet track, how much will it slow you down?

why don't you wear spikes?

I have no idea, but I think it would depend on the race distance.

run in another lane and figure out how many laps are required to meet the distance from a lane other than 1. Each lane out is 9 meters more than the one to its inside, right? Do the math, or just wear spikes.

I will be racing in flats. And the whole track is wet, regardless of what race I run in, just that lane 1 is a little flooded.

treadmill time trial

Go ahead and run this time trial on the wet track in lane one.

Then come back next week and run it one a dry track and tell us the results.

Your thread will forever become the basis for the answer to this question.

what a terrible idea

There's no possible way to tell how much the wet track will slow you down. There are too many variables to account for. It will vary from racing flat to racing flat (different treading/traction properties), from runner to runner, and from track to track. The only way to ensure no slippage with each stride would be to run with spikes. I understand you'll be racing in flats, but I don't think it'll make much of a difference. Just do it in spikes for a more accurate prediction.

I've always figured a wet track costs about 1 second per lap when I'm doing 400m repeats. This is just going by my own experience, and not counting time spent dodging puddles, jumping them, etc.

hmmmmm??? wrote:

I want to do a time trial to practice for a race that is coming up but it rained all of yesterday and all morning today and the track will be pretty wet with a little bit of lane 1 flooded in. Obviously I will be slowed down a bit from running in lane 2 for some of the way, but how much does a wet track also slow you down? I would be wearing flats.

This thread is stupid. A wet all weather track? Its not gonna slow you down at all.