>It you want to play a fun game at major meets (and improve your timing
>skills at the same time), get a group of your friends together and throw a
>quarter into the pot for each race (best played in a meet like a nationals
>where there are lots of heats . Then try and match the auto time. You'd be
>surprised how good you can get with a little practice. As in within 0.05
>with regularity, and getting it right at least a couple of times an
>afternoon.
>
>It's also surprising how some people, even after years of trying, just
>can't catch on to the concept and consistently produce times that are
>0.2-0.3 fast.
>
On a related note, it's amazing to me how many people think that just
because their hand-held Casio has digits to the hundredth, it's ACCURATE to
the hundredth. Trying to explain to them why it isn't is an even harder
task than explaining provisional qualifiers and altitude adjustment to the
layman (to paraphrase another lister). I've given up explaining to folks
around here just why the local sprint phenom did NOT run 10.27 (no wind
gauge, no FAT, etc.).
BTW, I continually impress my athletes and head coach by doing the exact
thing you describe at big meets. Must've been all the years of practice at
Mt. SAC, Pepsi, etc....
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Mike Trujillo, Angeleno-in-exile
Asst. Girl's Track & Field Coach
Davenport (Iowa) Central HS
(319) 391-5448
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