The earth naturally rotates counterclockwise so you're actually covering less distance running counterclockwise. The fastest(shortest) 400m tracks are the ones built east to west at high Latitudes because of this phenomena.
The earth naturally rotates counterclockwise so you're actually covering less distance running counterclockwise. The fastest(shortest) 400m tracks are the ones built east to west at high Latitudes because of this phenomena.
Counter-clockwise is slightly downhill
It's easier to run counter-clockwise than clockwise on the Northern hemisphere. And the opposite on the southern hemisphere. That may sound like a good thing, but in reality it forces the Africans to work harder. And that's why they win.
Because dna twists to the right.
Yes! This is true. Good call
They just follow the lead of NASCAR. Didn't you know?
EPO is overrated wrote:
It's easier to run counter-clockwise than clockwise on the Northern hemisphere. And the opposite on the southern hemisphere. That may sound like a good thing, but in reality it forces the Africans to work harder. And that's why they win.
Ethiopia's in the Northern Hemisphere and Kenya straddles the equator.
pots of berling earl wrote:
The tradition from European castle stairways of turning left on descent giving the defenders going down a free area to swing their right-handed sword and constricting movement of the right arm and sword for those attackers coming up.
This has nothing to do with it. The Europeans used clockwise and anti-clockwise tracks until the 1950s.
Typical runner or sockpuppet wrote:
Tracks should alternate direction on non-meet days. That would help prevent muscular imbalances and chronic injuries.
darn, if only there was a way to run clockwise on a track without generating a mirror-image of it that would itself run clockwise.
bigtool05 wrote:
Ethiopia's in the Northern Hemisphere and Kenya straddles the equator.
That explains why Kenyan tracks are 200m out and back.
pots of berling earl wrote:
The tradition from European castle stairways of turning left on descent giving the defenders going down a free area to swing their right-handed sword and constricting movement of the right arm and sword for those attackers coming up.
Defenders descending to the left, would be swinging their right handed swords to the wall. Attackers coming up would have their right arms free over the stairwells and would face no such constriction. Without considering the walls, the defenders coming down would have momentum on their side.
I am so disappointed that "Bad Wiggins" hasn't posted here with some complete BS explanation trying to pass it off as cold hard facts.
Fallible logic wrote:
Defenders descending to the left, would be swinging their right handed swords to the wall. Attackers coming up would have their right arms free over the stairwells and would face no such constriction. Without considering the walls, the defenders coming down would have momentum on their side.
stairwells in castle entryways? Shirley you jest
well not in Oleg Cassinis house wrote:
Fallible logic wrote:Defenders descending to the left, would be swinging their right handed swords to the wall. Attackers coming up would have their right arms free over the stairwells and would face no such constriction. Without considering the walls, the defenders coming down would have momentum on their side.
stairwells in castle entryways? Shirley you jest
who is Oleg you ask?
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pxBVBPXjVOE/TWmfYq2Z-DI/AAAAAAAAblA/2GgREMKPJqA/s1600/oleg+cassini+and+grace+kelly.jpgA women knows wrote:
I am so disappointed that "Bad Wiggins" hasn't posted here
Same
EPO is overrated wrote:
It's easier to run counter-clockwise than clockwise on the Northern hemisphere. And the opposite on the southern hemisphere. That may sound like a good thing, but in reality it forces the Africans to work harder. And that's why they win.
Counter clockwise running does not help elite East Efricans
reader of the forums wrote:
A women knows wrote:I am so disappointed that "Bad Wiggins" hasn't posted here
Same
No, Badum had the correct answer, you run against the clock. Can't top that.
But it's worth mentioning that you do run clockwise, from the point of view of a subterranean creature.
OK. What's the origin of clocks going to the right?
Gary Oldman wrote:
OK. What's the origin of clocks going to the right?
Sundials in the northern Hemisphere
curious criticizer wrote:
Oddly enough, you didn't search the forums.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=5441322&thread=5441233#5441322http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=5449855&thread=5449664#5449855http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=4197705&thread=4197649#4197705http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=3099620&thread=3066293#3099620http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=6202923&thread=6202843#6202923http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=2624745&thread=2624481#2624745http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&thread=3066293&id=3066309#3066309
Oddly enough. You didn't give us the answer.
Surely if you've read all of those threads, you'd know the answer.
-Rojo
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