Re: t-and-f: lane assigments for WC 800m women's final
I don't have a rulebook handy, but my guess is that the rule awarding preferred lane assignments to the fastest/highest placing qualifiers applies only to races run entirely in lanes (and possibly the 4 x 400). The kinds of factors that motivate the rule (radius of turn, desirability of placing the top competitors in adjacent lanes) may have some relevance in an 800, but probably not much. John Babington Charles Wandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sunday, August 07, 2005 at 3:48 PM -0500 wrote: >can some explain the lane seedings from semis to final. > >seems odd that Hazwl Clark being a heat winner gets lane 8 > >Charles F. Wandler office phone: (360) 650-2831 >WWU, MS9150, Chemistry Dept. office fax: (360) 650-2826 >516 High Streetpager: (360) 758-6157 >Bellingham, WA 98225-9150 > >Organic Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: t-and-f: All-Time US Women's 10k List
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >In an odd coincidence, I was talking with a friend (totally unrelated to >running) of mine here in Charlottesville, and we began to discuss >running. She >told me that she used to run quite a bit. Not so remarkable, lots of >people can >say that. Then she mentioned that she ran a 33 minute 10k back around >'79, >along with some extremely fast times in 10 mi., 20k and half marathon, >and ran >with Lynn Jennings and company on the national championship Liberty x-c >team >back in the day. Well, I wasn't expecting that. And I'm certain it's >not a >line of b.s., because she said some very nice things about Tom Derderian! Liberty A. C. won the national women's AAU cross country championship in 1978 and 1979. The scoring members of the 1979 team were Lynn Jennings - 5th place, Joan Benoit - 6th, Ellison Goodall (a Duke grad) - 8th, Dia Elliman - 16th and Susan Hughes - 46th. Benoit and Goodall finished 1-2 in the 1978 Bonne Bell 10K in Boston in 33:15 (a new American best) and 33:20 respectively. John Babington (Liberty A. C. '74-'93)
Re(2): t-and-f: televising distance races - and car races?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >What would actually work is to eliminate the last person to cross the line >each lap. > >If you limited the field to 13 runners in a 5k, this would be pretty >exciting, like the final jumps in the PV. This concept isn't new. It's called "devil-take-the-hindmost". I recall reading reports of such races in Long Distance Log 30 years ago.
Re: t-and-f: Re: Solskyddsfilm[1], etc., etc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>In the past few weeks, I've received a number of messages, from persons
>I've never heard of, that often have a track and field reference. Each has
>included an attachment and the message text has included the phrase, " . .
>. send you this file in order to have your advice."
I've also received several messages of this type. None of them were
consciously sent to me by the supposed senders (all of whom I knew), which
suggests that a virus caused their computers to send messages to everyone
in their address books.
Each message had two attachments: a small one containing the text message
("I send you this file...") and a large one which presumably contained a
virus. The help desk at Wellesley College confirmed that the messages
probably do contain viruses. One tipoff is that the attachment has a
double extension, i.e. two dots in the filename. They recommended
deleting the messages without opening the large attachments.
John Babington
t-and-f: Re: Requiescat In Pace
Here's a possible explanation for Jack Lemmon's two-mile "New England record". He could have won the two mile run at the New England prep school championships (private schools only) in meet record time. This would have been considered by many to be a New England record. The private schools may have been running two miles long before the public high schools ran anything longer than a mile. (These days, the privates run 1500/3000, while the public schools run mile/2 mile in Mass. and 1600/3200 elsewhere.) It's also possible that he set his "record" indoors. At least one of Andover and Exeter, and maybe both, had the same kind of indoor track that Harvard had in those days: a dirt floor in a square building, four straightaways, rounded turns, ten or more laps to the mile. John Babington
