Newton's Third
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Why would people think that the state meet course is mismeasured? I trust that they would be more accurate than a guy jogging with a wheel or Christmas gift Garmin.
Madman, I find a wheel just as or more inaccurate as any other device. I love watching people use a wheel and see it going back and forth in a snake like motion. THen they tell me my garmin isnt accurate.
If you have ever ran around a track with a garmin on and see the thing click over 400 meters as soon as you step on the finish line you will know it is accurate.
When I ran the course (a tight line around all corners) my garmin 405 was reading with 4 meters and picking up 32 satalites.
I will stick to my measurement that the course was upwards of 30 meters long.
^^^^No I find the out dated mindset that the wheel is more accurate then the garmin reletive the "the world is flat" people that arent willing to change and admit that your old ways are better then technology.
With the garmin you get to RUN the course and move along the runners lines in a more accurate way then walk with a wheel that sways back and forth in a snaking motion (I have NEVER seen a wheel being pushed straight). THat crooked line being measured is much less accurate.
They just dont like corners so with any course with turns in it the Garmin should actually be shorter. So the fact ccrunner got a longer measurement IMO means the state meet was long.
Prakel had a great run. He won a state title and was the fastest person on the course that day. Trying to compare his run to all former winners at state championships is like trying to say whether Jordan or Lebron is a better basketball player. Knowing the length of the course is no better than knowing the length of the basketball court or height of the rim to the nearest tenth of an inch in forming your argument.
Wouldn't it be 15:19.3? You would round down since it's .34
... and there was no issue.
Not so fast. I don't know all the issues, but at least one Miami runner was brought to a complete standstill by a spectator cross the the course.
Just have more officials, maybe 1 every 150 meters to tell people when they can and can't cross.
That was our main measuring stick of if they really showed up and raced well in the most important meets compared to our previous teams. It's bad enough you moved the State Meet a year or so too early. (there are still no slots at Scioto Downs) so don't make a bad situation worse by changing things again.