Trying to get a bunch of times on a bunch of young kids - any major time advantage or disadvantage with doing waterfall - or with comparing to kids who ran regular laned races?
Trying to get a bunch of times on a bunch of young kids - any major time advantage or disadvantage with doing waterfall - or with comparing to kids who ran regular laned races?
Well, it's an obvious disadvantage to run a waterfall start for 400m.
But they are young kids so it doesn't matter.
Minimize the problems by starting the 400 at the break line at the beginning of the straight. That way they have 100m of nearly straight running before they should be in lane 1 to keep the distance as close as possible to 400 meters.
This depends on which waterfall you are using. Perhaps start with small waterfalls and move up.