Remembering what every schoolboy/girl over your side should know (we
don't have to anymore since we've thankfully forgotten what yards are) 1
metre is about 39.37 inches, whereas of course 1 yard is 36 inches. You
see, when I was young, we hadn't yet forgotten about inches! Because it is
440 yards (10% more than 400) you basically have to compare 39.37 and
39.60 (36 plus 10%). The difference is 0.23. So, for a time of 10 minutes
(=600 seconds), the differential is just 0.23 times 600 divided by 39.37,
which is about 3.5 seconds.
My first estimate (3.6-3.7) was just calculated in my head, this time I
cheated and used a piece of paper for a long division. I'm getting old!
David Dallman
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/18/01 9:22:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> << >From my calculations the 1977 South Eugene team ran ~23.4 meters further
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> than the South Lakes team of 2001. So... barring any really strange
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> conversion factors the South Lakes time is considerably better. I don't
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> have my Big Green Book in front of me. But 23.4 meters and 11 seconds don't
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> add up.
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>
> --Ben
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Post, Marty
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> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 8:35 AM
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> To: 't-and-f@darkwing. uoregon. edu' (E-mail)
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> Subject: t-and-f: what's the best HS distance medley of all-time?
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>
>
> South Lakes 9:49.78 at the distance medley broke the 14-year-old HSR of
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> 9:53.31 by McCullough.
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>
> However,. back in 1977 South Eugene ran a 10:01.6 when the legs were at
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> non-metric yard distances.
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>
> What's the conversion factor and which mark is intrinsically superior?
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>
>
> Marty Post
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> Senior Editor
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> Runner's World Magazine
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> www.runnersworld.com
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> >>
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> I'm often amazed that some of the more astute contributors to the t-and-f
> list don't have some of the basic research sources. This is from Jack
> Shepard's High School Track 2001:
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> All-Time List(Pre-Raleigh)
> Distance Medley(metric)
> (+-converted from yards)
> 9:53.31 McCullough, The Woodlands,TX 1987
> 9:56.3 Jesuit, Carmichael, CA 1986
> 9:58.2 + South Eugene,OR 1977
> 9:59.5 + Lompoc,CA 1973
> 9:59.9 + South Eugene,OR 1979
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>
> Walt Murphy
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David Dallman
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