#s trivia

[bf]

Ever try to remember an address,phone #, or lock combination by associating a t&f mark with it?? i.e., to remember "890 Maple Ave." you think "Beamon", or 2739 Main St., you think "Ron Clarke/Oslo", etc. Give any 3,4,or 5-digit number, and I'll bet I can come up with some significant t&f mark for it. (yes, another 'get a life' trivia post, before Olympic year gets in full swing..)

[EastBayprepoftheweek67]

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Yes, our street address # is 3642, and we made that the last four digits of our telephone #. What's the association?

[trackhead]

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The 800-Number to the no longer existent Hoy's Sports ended in 4329 -- specifically to match Reynold's WR.

And personally, I do it all the time. Just about any 3+ digit number I can make into a T/F mark.

[hjsteve1.97]

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ok, my home zip code is 46038... do something for me with it.

[bigfish]

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Steve,

Your prize is that you live in Fishers, IN. Guess if you went to the blackjack table your numbers add up to 21!!!

[cullman]

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First impression...4 X 100 WR OJ n' friends 38.6?? I forgot all of my old 400 metre and 440 yards times so I'm probably missing an obvious one.

[Jon]

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>Yes, our street address # is 3642, and we made that the last four digits of
>our telephone #. What's the association?



36.42 - Cathy Freeman's 300m PB (ran last year)

[Jon]

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>ok, my home zip code is 46038... do something for me with it.



In James Kwambai's 4th race in 2003, he ran 60:38

4th race, 60:38
46038





Sorry... it's the best I can do!

[marknhj]

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>ok, my home zip code is 46038... do something for me with it.

Your pb was once 6' 3 1/2"? (6' 34/8")

[gh]

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In a twist on the original premise, whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, rather than thinking of famous marks when I see the clock, I usually do metric conversions for the high jump if it's 1:00- or 2:00-something. If I get up at a normal hour, then I switch to the PV (5:00-something).

But if sleep in, rather than moving on to the long jump I usually find myself doing Boeings instead (707, 717, 727, 737, 747).

[hjsteve1.97]

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>>ok, my home zip code is 46038... do something for me with it.

Your pb was
>once 6' 3 1/2"? (6' 34/8")

first off, this whole thread is very stupid, but fun.

But yes Mark, as pathetic as it is, I did indeed have a PB of exactly 6' 3 1/2" for about 2 weeks, when I upped it to 6' 3 3/4". I can recite my PB procession from 5'0" up to its final stratospheric ceiling of 6' 5 1/2" ( 1.97m),and I bet most T&F dweeb/wonks can do the same with their PB's. But we always called them "PR's."

[bf]

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Well done, Jon, with the 36.42 - I couldn't come up with anything, and not for lack of stat references. (Closest I came was Ryun's 36.4 last 300 in a 1500, and some old throwing WRs and age records, but all one digit short. Not even a 6:04.2 or 303'6",for seconds & inches...)

[Per Andersen]

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Yes, Garry I have also been down that road many times. In my case I seem to always wake up when the clock shows an odd last digit. Thus 2.41 and it's Paklin. The other night 3.17 (my daughter's first PR in the LJ when she was 9, many years ago)

[5k Guy]

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Ok

try 8505

Also 6949

Or even 28277

I'll take any of the three.

Thanks

[EastBayprepoftheweek67]

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>Well done, Jon, with the 36.42 - I couldn't come up with anything, and not for
>lack of stat references. (Closest I came was Ryun's 36.4 last 300 in a 1500,
>and some old throwing WRs and age records, but all one digit short. Not even a
>6:04.2 or 303'6",for seconds & inches...)

I second well done, Jon and bf. But, I was not aware of the Cathy Freeman mark so it’s not the T&F-related mnemonic I use to make it easier for me to recall my house street #, "3642."

My association is that in my youth I volunteered on the hurdle set-up crew at meets where I learned to set-up 36" for the intermediates and 42" for the highs, or "3642." That association with track meets is older and stronger in mind than my most recent house #, so I think of it to come up with my address #. (Yes, I have too many #s in my life.)