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IAAF legal limit

  • 26-05-2009 12:09pm
    #1
    RealistSpy
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    By any chance does anyone know the IAAF wind legal limit in 100m and 200m? And how do you do the wind calculation of of your sprint time.


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  • #2
    SitUbuSit
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    The legal limit is 2 metres per second.

    As to how to measure the effect on your time - anyone else care to comment?


  • #3
    RealistSpy
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    what if you have 2.0 wind does that mean your race time is illigal? or just bearly official.


  • #4
    robinph
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    Just means that your times won't get counted for world records.


  • #5
    thirtyfoot
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    2.0 m/s is legal.

    Anything faster and it won't count even for a PB let alone records.

    There will be a wind gauge halfway up the track but I'm not sure how long or the duration that it is 'on' or whether it takes an average or max.


  • #6
    cfitz
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    Tingle wrote: »
    2.0 m/s is legal.

    Looks like you got your PB so RealistSpy, congrats. Still plenty more track season left to bring it down further...


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  • #7
    RealistSpy
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    Nice I guess my next target is 11.40 @ the Leinster Seniors more speed trainning for me.


  • #8
    thirtyfoot
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    RealistSpy wrote: »
    Nice I guess my next target is 11.40 @ the Leinster Seniors more speed trainning for me.

    What did you run Sunday? I was there for a bit and the conditions were perfect. Very hot and a nice tailwind.


  • #9
    RealistSpy
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    100m 3rd @11.50 PB
    200m 4th @24.3 PB
    LJ 1st so I didnt bother trying
    TJ 2nd i didnt try either


  • #10
    thirtyfoot
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    RealistSpy wrote: »
    100m 3rd @11.50 PB

    Nice:cool:


  • #11
    RoyMcC
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    Tingle wrote: »

    There will be a wind gauge halfway up the track but I'm not sure how long or the duration that it is 'on' or whether it takes an average or max.

    10 sec duration, started on the gun for 100m/100mH/110mH, and as the runners come off the bend for 200m. If you have this luxury on horizontal jumps it's 5 (poss 7) sec. And it's the average wind speed.


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  • #12
    RealistSpy
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    RoyMcC wrote: »
    10 sec duration, started on the gun for 100m/100mH/110mH, and as the runners come off the bend for 200m. If you have this luxury on horizontal jumps it's 5 (poss 7) sec. And it's the average wind speed.

    That sounds really complicated


  • #13
    RoyMcC
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    RealistSpy wrote: »
    That sounds really complicated

    Not really, once it's all set up.

    Consulting the UK Athletics rules book (in the seeming absence of an AAI one) it seems I got the above totally wrong. The duration of the wind recording is in fact

    Distances up to and including 100m - 10sec
    100mH & 110mH - 13sec
    200m - 10sec (from runners coming off the bend)
    Horizontal jumps - 5sec

    And for the really really interested the reading is always rounded up to the nearest 0.1mps in the postive direction. So a +2.03 reading is recorded as a +2.1.


  • #14
    Timmaay
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    Yeh its all handy enough to do, I've taken wind measurements at events in the track in greystones before. Ya have a wind gauge and hand held computer and just have to slap in to measure average wind speed for 10 secs, hit the start when the runners come around the bend or off the blocks on a 100m and it spits out a windspeed measurement.


  • #15
    RealistSpy
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    ah cool you guys know your stuff


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