Shot put.
Shot put.
If it ain't on Strava, it didn't happen.
If you don't know that gps watches have a lap key, you are an idiot.
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Agreed. I take my watch off and leave it just outside the track, usually clipped to the fence. Hasn't been stolen yet!
I run a progression workout where I run the first rep in lane 1, the second in lane 2, the third in lane 3, etc until I run 8 of them. The goal is to run every one in the same time.
It would take too much math to figure out I far I ran total so I just wear a gps watch.
WinnythePoo wrote:
Agreed. I take my watch off and leave it just outside the track, usually clipped to the fence. Hasn't been stolen yet!
Thanks for telling, I will take it next time.
I don't even use starva....... wrote:
I run a progression workout where I run the first rep in lane 1, the second in lane 2, the third in lane 3, etc until I run 8 of them. The goal is to run every one in the same time.
It would take too much math to figure out I far I ran total so I just wear a gps watch.
Your GPS isn't that accurate idiot.
I use a Garmin 645 with a Dynamics Pod so I can get more data to review such as GCT, stride length, cadence etc.
Great on my 200 and 300 reps, valuable information about where and how you're performing and fatigue factors
Technoidiot wrote:
I don't even use starva....... wrote:
I run a progression workout where I run the first rep in lane 1, the second in lane 2, the third in lane 3, etc until I run 8 of them. The goal is to run every one in the same time.
It would take too much math to figure out I far I ran total so I just wear a gps watch.
Your GPS isn't that accurate idiot.
Yes it is. GPS does very well on a track because there are no sudden hairpins or sharp turns and rarely any tree cover.
800 dude wrote:
Technoidiot wrote:
Your GPS isn't that accurate idiot.
Yes it is. GPS does very well on a track because there are no sudden hairpins or sharp turns and rarely any tree cover.
I'm not sure that's correct. In my experience with 3 different GPS watches, they measure track laps long, i.e. I've run 3.75 laps and it buzzes for a completed mile.
In regards to the OP's original post, I do not agree either although it doesn't have to do with distance as much as laziness. I wear a regular sportswatch on my main wrist and my GPS on the other for track workouts just so I don't to go through the trouble of manually logging the workout online. All the information is already there and I just adjust the overall distance to what I actually ran.
I regularly run at nikes "Michael Johnson track" nicknamed "the track in the forest " my gps watch is completely inaccurate. It says i cut inside the corners by the steeple pit.
I wore it in a mile race on another track that had no obstructions. It was accurate. It hit 1 mile as i crossed the finish
InsertNameHere wrote:
I'm not sure that's correct. In my experience with 3 different GPS watches, they measure track laps long, i.e. I've run 3.75 laps and it buzzes for a completed mile.
What does the elevation look like? The GPS may be using a topo map from before the track was built to calculate elevation and if it was on a slope it will measure long.
I always find it interesting that if I run in the normal counter-clockwise direction the distance comes up different than running clockwise. For example...mile repeats yesterday. First repeat in the normal direction measured at 0.99 miles. Second repeat going clockwise measured at 1.07.
Is your watch on your left hand? It would travel a shorter radius going counter clockwise than it does clockwise. Does not seem like much, but the lane is 1.2m wide and the 2 turn stagger for lane 2 is over 7m. If your wrists are 0.3m (~1ft) apart, that would be a difference of about 1.75m per lap. More if your shoulders are wider. Running nearly on the line will put one arm inside the white line and result in less than 400m / lap measured by the GPS. Though GPS accuracy may not be to the meter, it is likely repeatable within a session.
Yeah, it's on my left hand. It's definitely repeatable and it's like that every time I switch directions. I just find it odd how you always hear that GPS watches aren't that precise, but something as simple as changing directions affects things that much.
Mine has always been accurate on the track.
Gravy wrote:
Mine has always been accurate on the track.
You are an idiot.
I'm sorry, I missed the part about why you are so butthurt that people wear watches on the track?
My local track has lanes 1-3 blocked off. If I'm going pretty far, i don't want to have to calculate how far I'm going. Great reason to wear gps on the track.
lets be honest wrote:
I'm sorry, I missed the part about why you are so butthurt that people wear watches on the track?
I'm not butthurt, they're just idiots.
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