Malmo - As I said, temperatures can vary greatly over the course of a
marathon. I think you will find that reasonably fast times have been run
when the temperature climbed into the low 70's during the course of the
race. How long they were in that range is almost impossible to determine
just from results and race reporting.
Floyd Highfill
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> From: malmo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 1:37 PM
> To: Highfill, Floyd; 'Track and Field Listers'
> Subject: RE: FW: t-and-f: Temperature and performance
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>
> > [Highfill, Floyd]
> > Of course I don't know if you were fed a line, I'm only saying
> > that looking
> > at results from distances races (say 10K through Marathon)
> > [Highfill, Floyd]
> > there did not seem to be any really fast times turned in when
> temperatures
> > were in the 40's or 50's. Notable times and PR's seemed to come from
> > temperatures in the 60's, low 70's, especially in the marathon.
> However,
> > temperature readings in many competitions are hard to come by and are
> just
> > as suspect as wind readings, and can vary a great deal over the 2-3 hour
> > period of some longer races.
> >
> > Floyd Highfill
>
>
> Floyd, low 70s is way to warm for the marathon.
>
> malmo
