Husky Indoor [curves an issue?]

[DrJay]

Solinsky 3:54.52 may be the best performance, though I didn't plow through every event. Webb about 6th inthe 3000 (results not up yet.) Will he have another tantrum today? I hope Salazar gets his head straightened out.

[guru]

Re: Husky Indoor

Results

http://www.gohuskies.com/livestats/c-tr ... /index.htm


Here's what caught my eye -

Hlaselo, Dumisane Florida 3:56.84

[DrJay]

Re: Husky Indoor

1 Nelson, Tim Nike 7:49.95$
2 Heath, Garrett Saucony 7:50.28$
3 Centrowitz, Matthew Oregon 7:50.59$
4 Hill, Ryan North Carolina St. 7:50.78$
5 Chelanga, Sam Liberty 7:50.92$
6 Webb, Alan Nike 7:51.85$
7 Estrada, Diego Northern Arizona 7:52.18$
8 Blankenship, Ben Minnesota 7:52.52$
9 Tully-Doyle, Colton Washington 7:53.13$
10 Fernandez, German Oklahoma State 7:53.82$

[lsabre]

Re: Husky Indoor

Just caught sight of it, superb performance and mile speed by Chris Solinsky!! I'm really becomming a big fan of his and so looking forward to what he can do this summer - maybe something like around 26.45 over 10000m?

[DrJay]

Re: Husky Indoor

Results

http://www.gohuskies.com/livestats/c-tr ... /index.htm


Here's what caught my eye -

Hlaselo, Dumisane Florida 3:56.84

Yeah, a better performance than Solinsky's, relative to his prior times.

[guru]

Re: Husky Indoor

Here's what caught my eye -

Hlaselo, Dumisane Florida 3:56.84

Yeah, a better performance than Solinsky's, relative to his prior times.

Not to mention the NCAA team implications for the sprint-rich Gators.

[unclezadok]

Re: Husky Indoor

Results

http://www.gohuskies.com/livestats/c-tr ... /index.htm


Here's what caught my eye -

Hlaselo, Dumisane Florida 3:56.84

Yeah, a better performance than Solinsky's, relative to his prior times.

But we view Solinsky as a 5k-10k runner, so the implications for his improvement may be more significant.

[guru]

Re: Husky Indoor

Solinsky trimmed a second off his own track record(3:55.76), set last year.

[Mighty Favog]

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Nelson's 7:49 today was a very good race.

While looking for results of kids I know from a meet over in Akron, though, I came across this:
1 See, Jeff Saucony 7:50.23

See comes from a miler background and Nelson just came off the NYC Marathon, so there's a much bigger difference between these than just the quarter second. But I still thought it worth mentioning.

[lovetorun]

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What caught my eye was BYU's Miles Batty who I thought was mostly a cross-country guy, running a close second in the mile in 3:55.79! Where did that come from?

[DrJay]

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Couple of good meet quotes:

Solinsky: “I was definitely nervous, with all of those sharp college guys sitting right behind me.”

Nelson: “To be honest, I didn’t really have a plan. Plans don’t ever really happen the way you plan them.”

http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield ... ars_c.html

[gh]

Re: Husky Indoor

Results

http://www.gohuskies.com/livestats/c-tr ... /index.htm


Here's what caught my eye -

Hlaselo, Dumisane Florida 3:56.84

Here's what caught another reader's eye (unfortunately, for some reason my box won't open the video, but this isn't the first time I've heard this) in an e-mail titled "The Seattle track is short":

<<Open the video here and watch carefully from 0:40 - 0:52 (you can freeze the picture by clicking on it):

http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... ewsID=6564

At best, the cones are touching the interior side of the inside lane line. At worst, they're entirely inside the track. This is bullshit. (And obviously, it doesn't matter that at this particular moment of this particular race, the leaders weren't taking advantage of it. Some of those in the pack appear to have been closer to the line than they would have been with a properly placed cone.>>

Empirical evidence on times has long suggested this to me (and perhaps Notre Dame too).

[mt]

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The placement of the cones depends on how the track was originally laid out and measured. If it is designed to have a curb, the cones should be on the line (with the outer edge of the cone at the outside of the line, as suggested in the previous post). However, if the track was measured to not have a curb (just a painted line), the cones just have to be adjacent to the infield side of the line. So, IF the UW track isn't supposed to have a curb, where the cones are in the video is okay.

[polevaultpower]

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The UW track was NOT designed to have a curb and has never had one.

The Notre Dame track IS designed to have a curb, but has sometimes been used without it, causing problems with incorrect cone placement.

[tandfman]

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The placement of the cones depends on how the track was originally laid out and measured. If it is designed to have a curb, the cones should be on the line (with the outer edge of the cone at the outside of the line, as suggested in the previous post). However, if the track was measured to not have a curb (just a painted line), the cones just have to be adjacent to the infield side of the line. So, IF the UW track isn't supposed to have a curb, where the cones are in the video is okay.

That's simply not true. If the track was originally laid out and measured with the assumption that there would be a curb, then cones are wrong, regardless of whether they're placed on the line or inside of it. But even if the track was measured to be without a curb, then the cones must be on the line, covering the line (placed so that the edge of the base of the cone coincides with the edge of the inside line closest to the track. Placing them adjacent to the infield side of the line is simply wrong and any time the cones are placed that way, the track is effectively short. From the video, it appears that there were places on the turn nearest to the camera where some of the cones weren't even close to touching the line.