For the record
Sissie's great track calculator comes to the ego rescue. According to its great mathmatic wisdom, a 3:40 800m interval in lane 6 (roughly where we were running) calculates to a 6:49 pace...!!! And Stefan who finished ahead of me while in lane 7 was probably doing something like 6:25.I told Stefan this morning about the lane calculator, which I hadn't used before now, but I remembered Sissie saying it was over a 1% difference per lane going out, which could be as much as 10% on the outside. He thought it was pretty detailed (translate "hardcore") to know this kind of thing. He's probably right.
According to the calculator, it takes as much as 9 seconds more per lap to be running in lane 6 at our target 800m interval pace. That's almost 20 seconds I could have added to my target time, hot dog!
But just like I told Stefan, I'm not ready to change my targets just because of the lane change. I'll use it to salve my ego after a depressing (and yet still exhilirating) track session, but I like the fact that I can push myself a little harder mentally just by moving out a few yards, and have it all pay off come marathon time.
Well, next week is 1600m intervals, maybe I will cut myself a little slack...
Visit the site again
http://www.philsport.com/narf/atrack.htm
posted by Patrick el Coyote @ 5:53 PM
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