Quick timing question?

[Guest]

What is a 14.06 110h (wind -1.6m/s) time worth in normal conditions?

[slowcoach]

Re: Quick timing question?

You haven't given any conditions, other than the wind speed, which was only taken for part of the race.

[Guest]

Re: Quick timing question?

Synthetic surface. FAT, 63 degrees, Light rain, wind directly against the hurdler's. What additional info do you need to know?

[EPelle]

Re: Quick timing question?

http://desert.jsd.claremont.edu/%7Enewt ... index.html (If you can access the site)

These are just for 100m corrections, however.

[Powell]

Re: Quick timing question?

You can't do simple corrections for hurdles, since wind affects your stride pattern, which may have an additional positive or negative effect (depending on your 'natural' stride length) in addition to the effect in speed. The effect of wind will thus be more of an individual matter, which isn't the case in flat sprints.

[nmzoo]

Re: Quick timing question?

osko2000 - If you want to send me your email address I will answer your question privately (at least a fairly good approximation).

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[26mi235]

Re: Quick timing question?

I suspect that a tail wind, especially a gusty one with a quartering component is not nearly so helpful to hurdlers as sprinters because of the timing complications. Can any hurdlers or other knowledgable posters confirm this supposition?

[ihurdle]

Re: Quick timing question?

Really good hurdlers(world class) are hardly helped at all by the wind. In spite of the technical difficulties that a stiff tail wind may present, the slower you are the more the wind helps, since stride length in bewteen the hurdles must stay the same. I think if you look at the all-time fastest hurdle time under any conditions you will see that they aren't much faster than the legal times.

[JRM]

Re: Quick timing question?

>http://desert.jsd.claremont.edu/%7En...ind/index.html (If you can
>access the site)

Old site! My new page is:

http://myweb.lmu.edu/jmureika/track/

Please update your links! Although the corrections are for flat 100m, the corrections for hurdles wouldn't be significantly different (maybe a few hundredths).

The bigger issue involved with correcting hurdles is that a significant wind can throw off one's stride pattern, and thus greatly affect their overall race strategy. This is effectively a non-issue for the flat sprints.

[Orange]

Re: Quick timing question?

Old site! My new page
>is:

http://myweb.lmu.edu/jmureika/track/

JRM: When do you anticipate updating your all time 100 meter lists?

[JRM]

Re: Quick timing question?

>JRM: When do you anticipate updating your all time 100 meter lists?

As soon as our IT deparment cooperates and installs some software I need to access my database, since they won't let me run my own server. I will post notification here when it's ready.

[smooth]

Re: Quick timing question?

Don't speculate in this case. Get the hurdler to race in great conditions.