Kinda off-topic, but charlie, how much do you think that kind of weather really affects the athletes? I ask because I ran my season best this year when it was in the low 40s and minimal wind and then ran an identical time when the temperature was in the 80s w/ an illegal wind! I know some others that have also run very similar times in cold weather and in warm weather, assuming it isn’t wet or super windy.
Temperature and wind matter, perhaps you just need to peak when it counts
Also Mickey Grimes ran 10.02 into -4.0 wind, equivalent to 9.77, watch out gay, peak when it counts
No they don’t. I heard Mickey Grimes just ran 10.02 -4.0m/s
Same has happened to me- when I was ready but not before. In any event, there is a significant gain when the temp is up- hot air rises because the molecules are farther apart, which equals less wind resistance. so temp and humidity can be factors just like altitude and wind.
Better be sure the wind meter wasn’t turned around like in Edmonton in 2001.
The one with the backstraight headwind that blew off the register. It was 9m+ and was freezing? (The grandstand protected the home-straight a bit) but I’m thinking of Edinburgh Com Games.
It was so cold I was wearing a shirt, woollen sweater, leather jacket zipped to the collar and then the windcheater jacket and trousers over that. And I was still frozen.
That was the meet in which media baron Robert Maxwell promised to sponsor and then found a Japanese octagenarian multimillionaire to make good on the promise he (Maxwell) couldn’t keep. A few weeks later he “fell” overboard on his yacht and drowned.
I remember Ben won the Games and then was unplaced in some meaningless meet which Allan Wells won (from ancient memory). I think Ben was still thawing out from his Edinburgh Experience.
The only place that was colder for a meet that I have attended was for those few days at the 83 Helsinki worlds when global warming was a term unknown and it seemed like a glacier had reached the stadium gates. I had to go out (and I wasn’t alone) and buy a stack of snow-gear and gloves. And that too was summer.
Jade Johnson nearly sustained an injury on the long jump. She slipped several times on the board then packed it in - thankfully.
… although Jade is a bigger primadonna than Paris Hilton. If she trained as well as she talked she’s break the world record!
yes, but it’s so cold in Glasgow, Paris Hilton would wear underwear.
Too funny!
She might even wear the orange jump suit too.
There’s usually ‘anti-freeze’ in the tea too …
(Anti-freeze is code for whiskey)
You should visit sunny Gateshead KK, races recently into a minus 5.5 wind. What do you reckon 0.7 difference added to normal times under decent conditions ?.
His 100m races this season so far :
10.43 -0.9, 10.37 1.1, 10.22 2.1, 10.42 0.0, 10.44 1.2, 10.44 0.0, 10.69 1.8, 10.21 2.7, 10.19 2.1, 10.25 2.8.
Another “Edmonton special”
Stay tuned…
June 2, 2007 - “Run Quick Open Invitational” - An annual event held at the Quicksilver Track; open to all collegiate, open and elite athletes.
http://www.usatfga.org/TFComm.html
Did it happen? Yes. Edmonton special? eh, maybe he didn’t realize he was supposed to run quick until the runquick invite.
http://www.coacho.com/meet/results/ga_quicksilver/2007/06-02_Run_Quick_Invitational/
Son of a! 10.02 -0.4 not -4.0. I will go bludgeon my source promptly. Does this mean Grimes is gonna pound Leonard Scott or is Grimes still suspended or are these results still lies?
That’s more like it.
ah u wud think only 2 numbers to remember there should be no problem correctly giving accurate information, but no never happens.
always inaccurate/broken wind guages, inaccuruate/broken FAT, people unable to communicate correct times and readings to others, inclement conditions or shutting it down at end of races leading to speculation
sometimes i wonder if times even matter 
MLF looks a bit hefty or is it just me?