Converting indoor 400m time on 200m banked track to outdoor time

at least one second. More if you are big as opposed to skinny. Big people are more subject to the centrifuge effect indoors.

there have been only 5 sub-45's indoors, ever. The record is 44.57.

Some athletes have indoor PBs close to their outdoor bests.

Bump.

So I ended up running 56.04 twice this indoor season.

Last years outdoor season was my 4th outdoor season since taking up sprinting and I ran a PB of 54.88. This coming outdoor season the goal is to run 53.9.

So for my first ever indoor season I finish up with 56.04. I've been trying to figure out how far off where I should be for indoors now if I want to run 53.9 by the end of the outdoor season?

I've been looking at the revised editions of the IAAF scoring tables for both indoor and outdoor, and it seems like the differential is 2% across the board, so 0.9 for a 45 second runner, 1.1 seconds for me. My 56.04 indoors equals 54.94 on the outdoor tables which is right on my PB. But are the indoor tables supposed to be compared to the outdoor tables?

Some people say half a second only, and there are even some I know who run faster indoors than outdoors.

I'm a bit disappointed not to go closer to my outdoor PB this indoor season, but it was a lot tougher than I thought it would be. I'm still very inexperienced at indoor 400m running.

So I'm just trying to get an idea of where I am at this moment in time as I'm not so sure what a 56.04 indoors means with regards my outdoor goals.

All knowledge welcome.

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nobody knows, not even the IAAF or NCAA.

As somebody who knows nothing about indoor running I find this interesting. Why are 400m times slower indoor than they are outdoor? Is the difference as significant for longer distances?

Indoor novice wrote:

As somebody who knows nothing about indoor running I find this interesting. Why are 400m times slower indoor than they are outdoor? Is the difference as significant for longer distances?

Well indoor your running two laps and it's a smaller space which means you have to decrease speed at some point in order to make it around those tight turns ultimately slowing your indoor time down about 1-2sevonds slower than your outdoor time give or take

Are you a front runner or are you playing around in the pack rather than running your race? Outdoors you have your own lane and nobody is trying to decapitate you with pointy elbows.