When timing a track & field race. When does the time offical start his watch..on the gun "sound" or the smoke
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With fully automatic timing, the clock is wired to the gun and starts when the gun is fired. It's all electrical, so sound or smoke doesn't make a difference.\n\nIf you are manually timing, you go by the smoke or muzzle flash, not the sound.  Sound travels about 1 mile every 5 seconds. for a 100 m race, the timers are about 1/16 of a mile from the start. That means it will take about .3 seconds for the sound to get from the start line to the timers at the finish.\n\nThe hurdles, 200m and 1500m are all started across the track from the finish line, so the same rule applies.\n\nIn other races run around the track, the starter and timers would all be at the finish line, so it wouldn't make any difference in the time.
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Born: August 11th 1983\nHeight: 1.77m\nWeight: 74kg\nEvent: Men's Single Luge\nFirst Run: 53.748 secs (+2.030)\nSecond Run: 54.961 secs (+3.547)\nThird Run: 53.528 secs (+2.132)\nFourth Run: 53.344 secs (+1.906)\nFinal Tally: 3 mins 38.386 secs (+12.298)\nRanking: 29th
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There's too many x-factors with a question like this to offer effective advice.  No idea how fast you are now, how healthy your present lifestyle is, what monetary resources you have to sink into this goal, etc etc.\n\nThat's especially true because 2:50 over 800 meters is a pretty fast time for a non-elite runner.
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If listed as 7:05, the game should start at that time. However, it rarely does. Usually it starts at 7:08 or so. The official start time is when the pitcher releases the first true pitch to a batter. Of course if the game is on fox that could be around 7:40.  :-P
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actually it is somewhere between 4:30 and 4:45\n\nim a three season runner and i get a lot of practice at it
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This are very good ones, hope it helps for what you want!\nhttp://www.weplay.com/track/stopwatches/?OVRAW=stopwatches&OVKEY=stopwatches&OVMTC=standard
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You need your fingers and a watch. the watch is very important since you need to count how many beats per minuts.. Your fingers come into play by feeling the beats.
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Catch a slow running track runner,knock him out and take them.Is that cheap enough?  LOL.
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Some local races are done on the cheap, and if you're a few hundred people back in the pack you often can't hear the gun or horn or whatever the "official" start is - you just wait for the mass of humanity before you to start moving.  Mooooo...
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I always like to be under 48:00 on a 10K...this means I ran sub 8:00\nmiles.  Everyone is different.  Don't be discouraged no matter what your time.  Use that time as a barometer for your next race and try to beat it.  Keep track of your times and know your PR (personal record) for the various racing distances.  This gives you something to shoot for in each race.  Running a race and beating a PR is a terrific feeling.  You look at that watch and you feel like you won the race!!\n\nGood luck!!
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It depends on what watch, but some watches the little thing you pull out to set them can pull out half way and all the way, the half way will let you set the date and the all the way will let you set the time. I hope that helps :)
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I got about the same time without starting blocks when a senior in high school during gym class. I like u never ran the 100 meter before. The PE teacher was also the track coach and he wanted me to go out for the track team. But I declined since I was senior. So your time compares favorably to one hasn't trained for the 100 meters. Also I believe the world record is 9.78 seconds so much closer to 10 seconds than 9. Keep going and it will come down.
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4:20 is time to smoke Pot!!! Everyday I participate...And the date 4/20 is the biggest smoke out of the year!!!
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Let's call the entire track length x, measured in meters.\n\nTo arrive at the time, we have to divide the distance by the speed:\n\nx / 8.5 + x/8.0 = 99\n\nmultiply all sides by 8.5 and by 8.0\n\n8.0 X + 8.5 X = 8.0 * 8.5 *99\n\n16,5 X = 8*8.5*99\n\nX = 8*8.5*99/16.5\n\nTime for the first lap: \nT1 = X / 8.5 s\nT1 = 8*99/16.5 s\n\nT2 = X / 8.0 S\nT2 = 8.5*99/16.5 s\n\n\ncalculator time....\n\nSolution D
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Time for one of you to set your watches
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the answer is time or the minutes pointer in a watch
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To breathe. He's going all out for over 6 minutes. I would be surprised to see anyone in speed skating who isn't breathing through their mouth.