he was ahead wrote:
odd I admit wrote:
This^, totally unnecessary.
This. Not sure what people are looking at if they think he won because he dove.
Sort of the equivalent of a football player diving into the end zone for fun when there is no defender within 5 yards. Good for show, but irrelevant in terms of actual outcome.
Also since you will decelerate over the course of the dive. It's better to run through.
Alan
and people here say ultras are a joke
I thought a running race was usually won by the fastest runner. Which means you actually have to run across the finish line. If it is a diving competition, it takes place in a swimming pool. Ridiculous - and so are the rules for allowing it.
foolish decision to jump: decreases speed through the finish line, increases risk of injury and recovery.
but who names their kids Infinite and Y'Majesty anyway?!
Runningart2004 wrote:
Also since you will decelerate over the course of the dive. It's better to run through.
You do?
interesting physics wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
Also since you will decelerate over the course of the dive. It's better to run through.
You do?
Sure. When you're off the ground you're facing resistance from the air so your center of mass decelerates.
But this leap, by making the torso (nearly) horizontal, had the net effect of *accelerating* the shoulders (the first part of the torso to hit the line) by moving them farther ahead of the COM, so probably was a net gain for the runner.
I'm told that BITD--the better part of a century ago--the criterion was having the torso *cross* the line. By that standard, a dive would likely worsen your chances of winning.
odd I admit wrote:
You want the real finish of the year so far? Find the London Marathon male wheelchair finish.
Romanchuk and Hug battling around the final turn, with Suzuki sucking Romanchuk's wheel. Romanchuk rope-a-dopes a bit to get Suzuki to go to Hug's wheel just as they are approaching some dividing partitions. Hug and Suzuki go right and Romanchuk bolts to the left and just pours it on. You can truly see the increase in arm turn-over from Romanchuk. By the time everyone is past the barriers Romanchuk is clear and Hug can't get on his wheel and Romanchuk takes it in for the win. That was some awesome thinking on the fly.
I believe you mean thinking on the wheel.
Yes, thank you.. this is running not.. whatever that is..
Rule changer wrote:
I have long pushed for a rule change that states if your foot isn’t the first thing to touch down on the other side of the finish line your finish time should be based on when the hips cross or something along those lines
I'm not impressed with a dive. Diving is easy. What I would like to see is that he begins a breaststroke to cross the line. Or a butterfly, maybe.
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