Metric Clock Men's WR's

[bad hammy]

>One day = 10 hours
>100 minutes = 1 hour
>100 seconds = 1 minute

I'm not sure you can keep those units. You'll need something along the lines of

1 day = 10 steves
100 halls = 1 steve
100 hills = 1 hall

1 hill = 0.864 seconds

Suddenly all those world records are going to look a lot slower.

Mens 200m WR 22.37 hills

Steves?? Halls?? Where did those come from???

(his real name)

Steves in honor of the inventor, Halls in honor the omnipresent bh and Hills in Honor of power poster gh.

OK, I buy into your metric clock – it was the same one I figured out, except the names of the units of time:

100 m-seconds in one m-minute
100 m-minutes in one m-hour
10 m-hours in one day

With that in mind, the metrically timed current men’s world records are below now (read as m-minutes:m-seconds.hundreths of m-seconds). Good for the distance runners, not so good for sprinters . . .

100 11.31
200 22.36
400 49.98
800 1:17.03
1500 2:38.43
Mile 2:58.25
3000 5:10.03
5000 8:76.56
10000 18:25.84
Marathon 81:11.75
100h 14.94
400h 54.14
3000st 5:48.18
4x1 43.29
4x4 2:01.62

[skyin' brian]

The fact that you posted a time for the mile is just wrong. :lol:

[bad hammy]

The fact that you posted a time for the mile is just wrong. :lol:

My gift to all those head-in-the-sand Americans who refuse to embrace the simplicity of the metric system. What a bunch of whining losers . . . :wink: :wink:

[skyin' brian]

this reminds me of that simpsons episode where the nerds took over running the city and had things running on metric time.

[bad hammy]

this reminds me of that simpsons episode where the nerds took over running the city and had things running on metric time.

Say, who you callin' a nerd?? :evil: :x :wink:

[gh]

[quote=bad hammy]

The fact that you posted a time for the mile is just wrong. :lol:

My gift to all those head-in-the-sand Americans who refuse to embrace the simplicity of the metric system. What a bunch of whining losers . . . :wink: :wink:[/quote:3smiokh6]

So who was the first to break 3:00 in the mile?

[gh]

Oh man, I gotta figure out my own question? Let's see, there 86,400 seconds in a normal day, and 100,000 in a metric day. Ergo.....

[dukehjsteve]

I am amazed at my own brilliance......

btw the 10 time zones is the only thing that will work. But that's ok, world's getting smaller anyway. We can have the whole USA in the same time zone !

[bad hammy]

So who was the first to break 3:00 in the mile?

An oldie but a goodie: Walter George ran a 2:99.1 on June 21, 1884 at Birmingham.

[Daisy]

[quote=gh]

The fact that you posted a time for the mile is just wrong. :lol:

My gift to all those head-in-the-sand Americans who refuse to embrace the simplicity of the metric system. What a bunch of whining losers . . . :wink: :wink:

So who was the first to break 3:00 in the mile?[/quote:3tjkfgm5]
3 m-minute mile would equate to a 4:19.2 mile in imperial time.

No surprises in the 110 m hurdles

The first to break 15 m-seconds was Nehemiah with a time of:
14.97 -0.2 Renaldo Nehemiah USA Zürich, 19th Aug 1981

Current WR
14.95 +0.5 Colin Jackson GBR Stuttgart, 20th Aug 1993
14.95 +0.3 Liu Xiang CHN Athens, 27th Aug 2004



Some barriers to look forward to in metric time.

First sub 11 m-second 100m = 9.51 imperial time

First sub 5 m-minute 3000m = 7:12.0 imperial time

First sub 80 m-minute marathon = 1:55:12 imperial time

First sub 2 m-minute 4x400 = 2:52.8 imperial time