Hypothetical Question About Rollers
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Love That Track!!!!
when masters Nats was there a couple years ago i did my first, and still only, 200m on a 333m Track..
i didn't get to do any full practice runs, so i plotted out my line from the rail and then tried to get as many partial efforts in during warm-up to feel it out.
The wind-up and jump went really well... but i was so used to having to muscle it down through the turns at Encino that i got too low in turn 3-4 and smacked a sponge!
i was sure i was going down as i shot up above the blue line. i decided if i was going down id do it with my foot on the gas! so i just powered through it and somehow i stayed up.
ended up being a PR time and i qualified 2nd!
when masters Nats was there a couple years ago i did my first, and still only, 200m on a 333m Track..
i didn't get to do any full practice runs, so i plotted out my line from the rail and then tried to get as many partial efforts in during warm-up to feel it out.
The wind-up and jump went really well... but i was so used to having to muscle it down through the turns at Encino that i got too low in turn 3-4 and smacked a sponge!
i was sure i was going down as i shot up above the blue line. i decided if i was going down id do it with my foot on the gas! so i just powered through it and somehow i stayed up.
ended up being a PR time and i qualified 2nd!
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Love That Track!!!!
when masters Nats was there a couple years ago i did my first, and still only, 200m on a 333m Track..
i didn't get to do any full practice runs, so i plotted out my line from the rail and then tried to get as many partial efforts in during warm-up to feel it out.
The wind-up and jump went really well... but i was so used to having to muscle it down through the turns at Encino that i got too low in turn 3-4 and smacked a sponge!
i was sure i was going down as i shot up above the blue line. i decided if i was going down id do it with my foot on the gas! so i just powered through it and somehow i stayed up.
ended up being a PR time and i qualified 2nd!
when masters Nats was there a couple years ago i did my first, and still only, 200m on a 333m Track..
i didn't get to do any full practice runs, so i plotted out my line from the rail and then tried to get as many partial efforts in during warm-up to feel it out.
The wind-up and jump went really well... but i was so used to having to muscle it down through the turns at Encino that i got too low in turn 3-4 and smacked a sponge!
i was sure i was going down as i shot up above the blue line. i decided if i was going down id do it with my foot on the gas! so i just powered through it and somehow i stayed up.
ended up being a PR time and i qualified 2nd!
Also, your coach told me that he never rode 200s on a 250 as well as he did on 333s.
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Love That Track!!!!
when masters Nats was there a couple years ago i did my first, and still only, 200m on a 333m Track..
i didn't get to do any full practice runs, so i plotted out my line from the rail and then tried to get as many partial efforts in during warm-up to feel it out.
The wind-up and jump went really well... but i was so used to having to muscle it down through the turns at Encino that i got too low in turn 3-4 and smacked a sponge!
i was sure i was going down as i shot up above the blue line. i decided if i was going down id do it with my foot on the gas! so i just powered through it and somehow i stayed up.
ended up being a PR time and i qualified 2nd!
when masters Nats was there a couple years ago i did my first, and still only, 200m on a 333m Track..
i didn't get to do any full practice runs, so i plotted out my line from the rail and then tried to get as many partial efforts in during warm-up to feel it out.
The wind-up and jump went really well... but i was so used to having to muscle it down through the turns at Encino that i got too low in turn 3-4 and smacked a sponge!
i was sure i was going down as i shot up above the blue line. i decided if i was going down id do it with my foot on the gas! so i just powered through it and somehow i stayed up.
ended up being a PR time and i qualified 2nd!
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Well, I'm small and stout at 5'6" and about 165 or 160 depending on the time of year and my best times of the year were within a few hundredths of one another at Rock Hill and Major Taylor. I'm not totally sure but I think Bill Clay, who wasn't massive by sprinter standards, holds the F200 records at Major Taylor. At least I don't recall him as being massive (versus guys like Curt Hartnett and Nothstein). There may be an efficient market hypothesis we could form. I have to think at an elite level, riders will adjust their wind up to accommodate mass and minimize energy expenditure to get to the rail for a given track.
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