phidipidippides wrote:
Math Magician wrote:Wrong! You're running less than 400m on 6 laps. The first lap is always 400m on an inside water jump.
You need to divide the distance between 200m lane 1 start and 3k steeple start by 6
It doesn't matter that the first lap is 400m. There are still 6.5 laps left, and for the 6 full and the last half lap you are cutting off distance for the jump. It's really not that hard MATH MAGICIAN, but maybe I am not sympathetic enough because I don't know what it's like to have a pea brain.
You two guys are busy chasing each others tails.
At the finishline after the first 200m you have 7 laps to go. Each of those laps will be short 1/7 of the distance between the 5000m start and the steeplechase start. 7 # 6 # 5 # 4 # 3 # 2 #1 # F (each # represents a waterjump)
Since I like nice round numbers and 21m is a nice round multiple of 7, then lets say each lap is 3m short of 400m = 397m.
From the other side of the track 200m to go will be 3m up the track from the 5000m start. 600m to go will be 6m up from the 5000m startline. and so on.
Finish
#
200m to go is 3m from 5k start
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600m is 6m from 5k
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1000m is 9m
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1400m is 12m
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1800m is 15m
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2200m is 18m
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2600m is 21m
3000m is 21m
(again, each # represents a waterjump)
Whether or not the difference is 3m or 4m or 3.1416m doesn't rally matter. Each steeplechase lap with a water jump is less than 400m by a little.
Everything adds up.