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 Matthew Child |
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| Posted: 01/10/04 17:23:06 06 |
Just because you don't find a joke funny or have heard it before So f*ck%ng what?
I didn't realise the world revolved around you.
Pete the humourless Pratt? Seconded............ |
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| Matthew Child |
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| Posted: 29/09/04 15:23:24 24 |
http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/tracklane.htm
Put in your lane width and it calculates the total track length for each lane.
The results look similar to mine, maybe they used the same (wrong?) calculation. | |
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| Matthew Child |
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| Posted: 29/09/04 15:20:26 26 |
Fair enough U/A
do you know what distance the straights are?
Where do the 100m runners line up and finish, i assumed it was on the same straight as used for the longer track races.
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| Matthew Child |
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| Posted: 29/09/04 15:03:16 16 |
It's interesting to note, therefore the big advantages of running on the inside lane in a race, particularly middle distance running, where races are won by smaller distances than the 5/10,000m.
Someone stuck on lane 2 for a bend will run 4 metres further than if they were in lane 1.
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| Matthew Child |
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| Posted: 29/09/04 14:55:39 39 |
Interesting little puzzle that. My calculations give the below.
Lane (middle of the lane using lanes 1.25m apart)
1 400m
2 407.8m
3 415.7m
4 423.5m
5 431.4m
6 439.3m
7 447m
8 455m
9 463m
Basically you can exclude the straights as we know they are the same, the difference is the bends, which we can treat as a circle.
Obviously the circumference of the circle made by lane 1 is 200m. Using pie, we know therefore the diameter is 63.65m. If the lanes are 1.25m apart, we know therefore the diameter of the next circle (Lane 2), is 66.15m, use pie again to get 207.8 for this new circle, and 407.8 for the whole of lane 2.
Anyone see anything wrong with that?
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