Hey I was wondering how much of a difference indoor makes from outdoor in terms of time, and what the factors are, is the tight turns the only factors, or does the dry air have any impact? How much of a difference does it make in the 400, 800, and the mile?
Also, this weekend I ran a 1:55.8 in the 800M indoor. When outdoor approaches, will I be able to run 1:53.99 in the outdoor season on similar training, or to make that leap will I need to increase the intensity?
my high school said a an extra second for every 400m.. have no idea how accurate this was though. But i ran a 2:10 800m time trial on an outdoor 400m track then a 2:12 indoors about a week later so maybe.
Thanks for the input!
About a second every half mile. That's an automatic 2 seconds quicker just by switching to an outdoor track, not even counting any fitness gains.
By outdoor, with combined fitness increase and longer straightaways, a 5 second improvement is common, and even more in growing high schoolers.
Yes, it actually makes a bigger % difference for the shorter distances than the longer.
is 51 Indoor Equivalent to 49 outdoor? or 50? Unbanked indoor track