Casimir Loxsom breaks the 600m AR, 1:15.58. For reference, Rudy hit 600m in 1:14.30 when he got the WR.
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Casimir Loxsom breaks the 600m AR, 1:15.58. For reference, Rudy hit 600m in 1:14.30 when he got the WR.
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indoor or outdoor track?
Indoor banked track.
I wonder if Rudisha would run well on that track with the banked curves. Setting an American record suggests a world class time no?
Will this be ratified? What effect does the high altitude of Albuquerque have on a 600m performance?
Why would it not be ratified? Bob Beamon broke the long jump WR at 7,300 feet.
Well Cas already had the fastest 600m run indoors by an american but it was on an oversized track and not ratified. I'm just genuinely curious about the advantage or disadvantage of altitude on a 600m. Just trying to start a conversation. No need to be a douche.
nice job. this seems to be his best distance. maybe with a little more endurance work, he'd be running low 1:44s outdoors.
been around ya' know wrote:
Well Cas already had the fastest 600m run indoors by an american but it was on an oversized track and not ratified. I'm just genuinely curious about the advantage or disadvantage of altitude on a 600m. Just trying to start a conversation. No need to be a douche.
Sorry for any offence.
No, there's no advantage to running at 600m. The benefits start around 2400m.
By the way, is it an AR or American best? The USATF doesn't seem to recognize a 600m AR.
Now a Coach wrote:
been around ya' know wrote:Well Cas already had the fastest 600m run indoors by an american but it was on an oversized track and not ratified. I'm just genuinely curious about the advantage or disadvantage of altitude on a 600m. Just trying to start a conversation. No need to be a douche.
Sorry for any offence.
No, there's no advantage to running at 600m. The benefits start around 2400m.
By the way, is it an AR or American best? The USATF doesn't seem to recognize a 600m AR.
isn't 600m probably about the distance where altitude starts to negatively affect performance? am i missing something here?
Congrats cas!
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Now a Coach wrote:Sorry for any offence.
No, there's no advantage to running at 600m. The benefits start around 2400m.
By the way, is it an AR or American best? The USATF doesn't seem to recognize a 600m AR.
isn't 600m probably about the distance where altitude starts to negatively affect performance? am i missing something here?
There's clearly confusion on the part of the poster to whom you're replying. He seems to think that "600m" refers to the altitude, rather than the race distance.
Brief story on HP: http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/01/cas-loxsom-breaks-american-600m-indoor-record/ Still waiting for results to be posted.
You got it backwards. With a little more distance work he can't run 1:15.
Whatever gets Lox his best 600 gives him his best 800.
I see no evidence of that. He ran his best 800m years before these two 1:15 600s (2013/2015) in 2011 (1:45.28).
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Casimir Loxsom breaks the 600m AR, 1:15.58. For reference, Rudy hit 600m in 1:14.30 when he got the WR.
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Another soft 600 record broke. If Elite 800 guys run 1:16 en route to a 1:43/1:44, can't they run faster for 600?
Yeah, I'd say it's mostly a product of very few attempts on the record. IIRC Symmonds was around 1:16 flat for his 800 in the 2012 final, so it seems like he could (at his 2012 fitness) go at least a second faster for 600.
Sowinski was 1:15.61
Will we see them in the Mel Shepard 600yds at 168St Millrose> Do they run that at meters now?
Good for 1:46-mid equivalent, in January. Good run by Wiezorek as well, 0.7 sec behind.
Non hard core track fans please quit reading so you won’t get confused. Loxsom has actually run faster for 600m indoors than he did today. In 2013, he ran 1:15.42 to win the Big 10 Indoor Championships, but it was on a 300m oval track that doesn’t count for record purposes. Loxsom’s run today was on a 200m banked track which is eligible for record purposes, so Loxsom should be soon certified as your new American record holder.
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Yea, this is weird! It makes it sound like the smaller the track, the greater the vortexing momentum, thus a faster time (?) What possible difference could it make? Reminds me of the "bottom bulge" theory in Olympic size swimming pools where if the bottom surface is slightly convex underneath, it then creates a slight bulge on the surface, thus allowing for faster times. Cass is on the edge of making the Olympic team next year - it's gonna be close!