400H potential based on 300H?

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8 years ago 03/16/2017 10:45pm EDT

I'm a high school runner who just started running hurdles. I'm not very fast or anything but if I work hard maybe I can get fast enough to run for a slow D3/NAIA team. My goal isn't scholarship money (I'm way too slow for that), I just want to keep training. Academically I'm a strong student and many schools I like are competitive, but some have more moderate standards. Few seem to have posted their standards.

I know it's a good idea to check out what a college team runs and see where I would fit on their roster. The obvious problem is that nobody runs the 300H in college, only the 400H. Some rosters list what their runners ran in HS so I can look at that, but that's pretty time consuming and not all of them have that. How can I estimate what I'd run for 400H based on my 300H?

8 years ago 03/17/2017 12:29am EDT

re: FR

The difference from 300H --> 400H isn't going to be uniform for all athletes; sprint types who post stronger times in the 110H/100/200 will have more of a drop off than guys who are stronger at 300H/400. Unfortunately, IAAF doesn't provide scoring tables for the events.

That being said, between 1.4* and 1.45* is generally right on the mark for directly converting high school 300H --> 400H. Collegiate athletes will have a better conversion (closer to 1.35*) simply by nature of having more experience with the event.

8 years ago 03/17/2017 12:31am EDT

re: FR

Also you can pretty much walk on to any D3 team

8 years ago 03/17/2017 1:48am EDT

re: ThatAverageRunner

A lot of academically competitive schools seem to have pretty high standards, even for D3. MIT's standards, for example, aren't as high as D1 but are far from being open to anybody. For the 300H, they want to see 48.00 or faster to walk on (for women). For the 400H it's 67. 67/48 is about 1.4 so that correlates with your estimation of 1.35-1.45

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