Track and Field

"4 laps equals 1 mile"

Since the standard for tracks built in the last 20+ years is 400M, then you must go 9.344 meters further than 4 laps. Over 90% of the outdoor tracks in existence are only 400M and will thus require the extra 9.344 meters to equal a true mile.

This is why most track meets only run the 1500M or the 1600M and not the mile. Unfortunately, most people erroneously assume that 4 laps equal a mile, due to older tracks being built to a non-metric standard of 440 yards.

If you want to finish on the common start/finish line and you'd like to run/walk a mile, then you should start at the beginning of the 4x400M relay exchange zone, which is 10 meters before the finish line. By doing that you will run/walk about 1 meter more than 1 mile, but you won't be short of a mile, as you would be if you only do 4 laps.

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Thoroughbred race horse tracks are usually oval in design, and vary in length from 440-yards to 2.5-miles. The Kentucky Derby is ran on a 1.25-mile dirt track. The Dubai World Cup is ran on a synthetic dirt track of the same distance.

Current 440 yard dash World Record set by John Smith in 1971 is 44.58.
The fastest 440 yards run clockwise was Scott Ruvolo 1984 on a dirt track at Excelsior H.S in Norwalk on July 20th at an open meet. He was clocked at 44.97 but it was latter changed to 45.17 taking the slowest time of the 4 watches because of disbelief. His 44.97 and 45.17 on a dirt 440 yards running clockwise was both faster than his best 400m on an all weather runing in the correct direction.
-Michael Johnson holds the WR for 400 meters more than 2 yards shorter then 440 yards at 43.18.

Track and field athletics can be broken down into many different ways but they are all loosely based on the act of walking and running. Although I guess you could add jumping into that if you consider hurdles.

There are a couple of different one's there's hurdles, long jump,shot put,running long jump,discus....

5.5 seconds


In middle school track most kids run 13-14 seconds in the 100m, so proportionally that would be about 5 seconds. To account for acceleration time, add about a half second to that.

This kind of data doesn't exist. The 40 yard dash is not any sort of official event, and records include winners not averages, so the only way to determine this accurately is to round up a diverse group of 13 year olds and have them run the 40 yard dash, and find the average time.

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Maurice greene holds the 60 meter world record with a time of 6.39 seconds which he ran twice here is the video \

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU3yxIlcmhY

This is true but Tyson Gay ran a 60 meter dash race against shaq on shaq vs

and tyson's time was 6.08 so this can be considered the world record

oval, 400 meters long

Cross country is long distance running done not on a track. Track and field includes many running events from sprints to long distance on a track as well as field events such as long jump, shotput throw, pole vaulting, etc.

The fastest man is Usain Bolt who holds the world record in the 100 meter dash at 9.69 seconds. That would work out to about 23 MPH.

1616 meters in a mile

1616/100=16.16

16.16 x 9.69 = 156.59 seconds in a mile

156.59/60= 2.6 minutes

60 minutes/2.6 minutes = 23 MPH

Actually Usain Bolt has not beaten Tyson gay in a race since the 2008 Olympics and that was because of an injured hamstring that Gay received qualifying for the Olympics....Meaning Tyson Gay is the worlds fastest man

Well if you're not talking about an olympic time I would say about 1 minute and 10 seconds but that's coming from a competitive swimmer and just thinking about the average time for most people on my team.

Depending on how fast you can swim, times can vary from one minute and thirty seconds (a beginner) all the way down to going as fast as a forty two second 100 meter (advanced, in great physical shape, high zone qualifier). It also depends on what stroke you are swimming, as one stroke can be faster than another.

As of December 2013, British track and field athlete Steve Ovett is still alive.

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This belongs to Asafa, who has a superb start.

There are no records or data kept for this activity, and therefore also no sample from which to compute an average.

you pick frome 1 to 5 events that you think that you would be good at and experiment throughout the years

Three and one third.

Hard to say. The first Nike shoes were distributed to athletes that were competing in the US Olympic Track & Field Trials in 1972. Since those trials were in Eugene, Oregon, and Steve Prefontaine was one of those athletes (and went to the Summer Olympics in the 5000 meters), then we can assume that it wasn't just him that wore Nikes. He was however the first major track athlete to actively endorse and use them.

i am a 5.5 120 pound 8th grader and i run the 40 in a 5.3 and i am stupid and i am one of the fastest people at my school but a guy that goes ther runs it in a 4.8

when i was in middle school i was 5.2 and weight 120 i was running a 4.7 the fastest guy in my school run a 4.5 this #s are perfect its pretty fast

I'm 5'4| 91lbs.| 5th grader, I can run it in 5.5..

When running a race on a track, the runners can be either coming out of the blocks (as in the 100-meter dash through the 400-meter dash) or can stand up at the start line (as in all longer distances). That's the standing start.

Age nine I don't know, but the "Bantam" record for ten year olds and under is 2:19.0.

The Australian national record for 800m for a 10yo boy is about 2.18-2.19.

Actually I just checked and it's 2.15.6 set in 1993. That is pretty extraordinary.