Athletics

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:06 pm

This weekend i won 80 metres and almost the 600 metres (one metre from victory)

That makes me one of the fastes in Scania (Scania is a part of Sweden)

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:11 pm

Congrats

How fast can you run 36.576m in? That's a standard measurement of how fast someone is in America, called the 40-yard dash, or the 40 for short. Every professional and higher educational athlete that plays a running sport gets clocked in it

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:41 am

i'm not professionnal...yet...

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:18 am

Adense wrote:i'm not professionnal...yet...

Well, with a athletics skill of around 85, I don't think you're far off!

wogya · Post by **wogya** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:54 pm

Ah, athletics, those were the days... Many people wanted to get me professional training when I did 183 in high jump at the age of 15, but I found playing the piano a lot more interesting than bouncing around on a track field. I wonder how well I would do today...

36.576m??? Doesn't seem like a measurement of how fast someone is, more like a measurement of how fast someone accelerates. My favorite distance nowadays is 42,195m, though judging from the results, I don't think my endurance attribute is over 90 yet...

Post by **Haplo** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:51 pm

Aye, it's enough of a distance for someone to reach their top top speed. A relatively fast time would be about 5.4 seconds or so. Really fast would be 4.3 or 4 seconds flat.

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:03 pm

Im a long distance runner so I need way more than 30 meters to reach my top speed. I was able to run 10 kilometers in 47 minutes in the past. Acceleration is not my thing but once i reach a certain speed i can keep it for very long.

Post by **Haplo** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:34 pm

Actually, you may choose to take longer since it'd be a waste to max out so early in a long distance race, but it doesn't take hardly anyone more than 40 yards to hit their top speed. It's not that short of a distance, you know. I'm talking about how fast you can hit your top speed, not how high your top speed is. It's our 0 to 60 test for humans. You just barely break into your max once you hit the 40.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:08 am

Had I not injured my leg, I'd love participating in a marathon. Although I love running around aimlessly, I'm not fast, but my endurance is really admirable (endurance -> big fatigue bar).

Xui'al · Post by **Xui'al** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:14 pm

Oh, come on people, who runs?

I do my 1500 in 1:59 and my 5000m in 7:20.

Post by **Haplo** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:45 pm

The people who don't have ice in the summer. Or even snow in the winter. That'd be me.

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:48 pm

oh no!! a friend of mine competed this weekend and now he's second fastest in Scania. that makes me fifth fastest

here's a link to show the Scania-results for 2007:

http://www.skanefriidrott.org/Word_dok/Sk_stat_ute_P13_2007.htm

(P13 means "boys thirteen")
i'm on the fifth rank on 80 metres (note i've been running fast enough to be third best, but not on a competition, so that didn't count

)

adamantum · Post by **adamantum** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:25 pm

I'm definitely not a long-distance runner, but I have pretty nice speed on short runs. Considering my physical activities, I guess that's quite nice. I like taking long, long walks tho.

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:13 pm

adamantum wrote: I like taking long, long walks tho.

Same here, I'll do 10k's then turn around and do another 10 to get home. (ussually I'll just do 7k's all the way since I don't have all day).

adamantum · Post by **adamantum** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:18 pm

Jedak wrote:Same here, I'll do 10k's then turn around and do another 10 to get home. (ussually I'll just do 7k's all the way since I don't have all day).

My personal longest one was 17km (one way). And I do those rarely.

NexUmMonastica · Post by **NexUmMonastica** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:53 am

a 40 yard dash down a flat synthetic turf certainly doesn't account for universal speed. Add Wrothgarian landscape, mountain lions, and explosions and you have yourself a test of speed.

but congrats for ranking in your province, Adense.

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:06 pm

whohooo! third fastest on 200 metres

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:50 pm

*Opens console*
*selects this topic*
*writes: Resurrect*

in six days I will compete in the largest athletics competion ever in my life. Its the five best in all..ehm..what's it called in english:S..i say braches, because that was the best thing i could find. So let's repeat that. Its the five best in southern Sweden in all branches. (Hope you understood) Anyway, I hope to beat some more club records

(I've also started running 200m now, I'm 0.5 sec behind the fastest in Scania)

Lord Paladas · Post by **Lord Paladas** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:50 am

You dont know it, but i am quite great for my age and stature. at 15, i ran my 800m in 2:09 something. Went to State, and got 18th. In Arizona! I do cross-country, and i am threatening the 1st place man. This kid aint used to losing, so humbling him is my goal. His family is the gratest atheletes on the face of the planet, and i strive to beat him, and take out his brothers 800 record of 1:47. I guess I need to book it. Last meet i ran for CC was in 21:23, over 3.1mi, through a grueling sandy track with little shade.

Sorry, just some revieries. Thats what i do. "I came to COMPETE!" is my motto, and anyone who is in Lake Havasu AZ knows it, and the kid who spoke those words just last year.

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:49 am

i want to be 14. cuz then I get to run 100m instead of 80m wich is way to short, and 800m instead of 600.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:05 pm

damn all you athletic people

(as in good job!)

Lord Paladas · Post by **Lord Paladas** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:09 am

Wait...youre under 14? What's your 800m? Have you run one?

@Lady Nerevar: thanks, its what i do (smoothes out shirt and flexes). oh, and im sure adense does that too (i bet ur a freshie, or still in middle school, eh, adense?)

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:08 am

in sweden you start with 800m when you get 14. i'm 13, so i have to run 600m. but i think i can run 800m on about 2 min (when saying "about 2 min" it can be 2.20 as the slowest time. not sure, as i have never tried to run it against fast people, only against myself, and then you can't do a good time

Lord Paladas · Post by **Lord Paladas** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:32 am

wow. i would probably get creamed on an international level, then...

well, my aspirations are high for myself, and i beg of you to NOT get arrogant once you do REALLY well. then you wont be able to handle it when someone better comes along.

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:15 am

i know that, and has thought about it. so i will be able to handle if someone better comes and compeletly pwns me. I think I would be a bit like "wtf? how dare he"

and then try my best to beat that person.

Lord Paladas · Post by **Lord Paladas** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:38 am

dont let pressure get to you either. the whole school wants me to be the best, and i admit that i fear the fall that is probably gonna happen.

do try your best. i am interested in your up-and-coming-career. give me updates every so often.

take advice from this American; with luck you will hear about me!

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:03 am

tomorrow it happens, I'm hopeing for at least coming third in 200m, because that's what I'm best at. but if I don't and come fourth, I can understand that. those people have trained for many years. i have only trained for one year so..

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:35 am

I wish you the best of luck

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:53 am

If you make it to the top 3, we expect a round of instant digital hi-res beers.

Adense · Post by **Adense** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:35 pm

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!!!! they had some strange starting-pistols. they were so silent you could almost not hear them. so my start was terrible. i got fifth (5th). I could have been 3rd the starting-part hadn't screwed up. :@

so no digital hi-res beers.
Edit: but i got a new personal record.

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:55 pm

Thats still amazing considering the leauge your in!

Better luck next time