Friday, April 6, 2012

Best Pacing for 400 and 800m Races

Modeled by physcists: "Here a toy model is used to understand a puzzling phenomenon from the sport of track and field. Races are almost always won, and records set, in 400 m and 800 m running events by people who run the first half of the race faster than the second half, which is not true of shorter races, nor of longer."

2 comments:

Derrick Peterman said...

Fascinating. Where do you find this stuff?

Michael Caton said...

This one I found through arXiv's technology review blog, http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/ (didn't give a H/T because I don't think they would care). Sweat Science which I have in my blogroll is also a great one.