Dan -
I don't follow. If you subtract the start, then the second half was
MUCH slower
- Ed Parrot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: t-and-f: MJ's splits in his 43.18 WR (was Negative splits in
440)
> If you subtract out the start (at least 0.50 to 0.75, maybe as much as
> 1.20 based on the 50m splits), then the second half arguably *was* run
> faster. In any sprint event, the start becomes a major factor when
> determining average speed. Not nearly as significant in events not run
> out of blocks.
>
> Dan
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Don't mean to misread here--but I always thought the meaning of
> > "negative split" is that the second half of a race is faster, not
> > slower, than the first (as for example with Jim Ryun's WR 880 yards
> > where he went out in 53+ and finished in 51+)--so MJ's splits in his WR
> > 400 are not--by that definition--negative.
> >
> > His splits support my earlier note that the faster the 400 WR gets over
> > time, the more even the splits are likely (likely!) to be.
> >
> > Mitch
> >
> > ________
> > > Further to Seville splits, here's what the video-analysis shows for
> > Michael
> > > Johnson's World Record in the 400:
> > >
> > > 50m 100m 200m
> > > 6.14
> > > 4.96 (11.10) 11.10
> > > 5.00 (16.10)
> > > 5.12 (21.22) 10.12 21.22
> > > 5.20 (26.42)
> > > 5.24 (31.66) 10.44
> > > 5.52 (37.18)
> > > 6.00 (43.18) 11.52 21.96
> > >
> > > * don't forget to consider the time out of the blocks!
> > >
> > > Jimson
>
>
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