I noticed there was a barrier like 50m off the starting line. I've never seen that before (or never noticed anyway). Seems really dangerous.
Was that an error or just a quirk of the track and the pit being outside?
I noticed there was a barrier like 50m off the starting line. I've never seen that before (or never noticed anyway). Seems really dangerous.
Was that an error or just a quirk of the track and the pit being outside?
Correct. It has to do with the placement of the starting line due to the outside water pit. You see it from time to time and it's always a bit awkward.
Thanks, I've seen barrier screwups at meets before. Given this is NCAAs thought there had to be a reason.
we looked it up after seeing it. 5 barriers a lap after you cross the finish line the first time. I guess the wide track, and outside pit, made the start very close to the finish line.
The steeple is always 35 barriers, and there are never any barriers until 7 laps remaining.
Once the location of the water pit is decided the other 4 barriers are spaced equidistant around the track.
Because Texas has 9 maximum width lanes, with the water pit on the crest of the second turn the laps are very long and a 3k comes out to barely more than 7 laps. The equal spacing of the barriers dictates that one come almost immediately after the finish line on that particular track.
They don't even have 50 meters before the first barrier at Texas, but the barriers are farther apart than on most tracks.
One of the reasons that tracks with water pits outside the track shouldn't be used in championship races.
shhsdsd wrote:
I noticed there was a barrier like 50m off the starting line. I've never seen that before (or never noticed anyway). Seems really dangerous.
Was that an error or just a quirk of the track and the pit being outside?
Holy Sh!t
I was just going to post this very same question..thought ..Am I seeing seeing this correctly or is this a mistake..? Thx for bringing this up !
In Recovery wrote:
shhsdsd wrote:
I noticed there was a barrier like 50m off the starting line. I've never seen that before (or never noticed anyway). Seems really dangerous.
Was that an error or just a quirk of the track and the pit being outside?
Holy Sh!t
I was just going to post this very same question..thought ..Am I seeing seeing this correctly or is this a mistake..? Thx for bringing this up !
They actually mentioned this issue on the broadcast at the start of the first heat.
asdfasdfsa wrote:
Thanks, I've seen barrier screwups at meets before. Given this is NCAAs thought there had to be a reason.
You e seen barrier screwups before yet you havent passed Steeplechase 101?
Yawn.
Read the steeplechase section of various rulebooks some time. There are number of exceptions for odd configurations (I'm assuming old stadiums). The barriers "should" be equidistant around the track but there are variances in case the last barrier is too close to the finish line to be safe.
At the 2007 Worlds (Osaka) the track had an outside water jump. From the start to the first barrier was about eight seconds.