Knees are Tight (Read 1941 times)

xor


    You also show up on friday afternoons to play your game. 

     

    zoom-zoom


    rectumdamnnearkilledem

      strawberry cakes providing chiropractic and masages...

       

      All strawberry cakes do around here is make me fat.  I'd love to find some cakes that could give me a masage (sic).

      Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

      remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.    

           ~ Sarah Kay

      esofen


        Well I don't write here to reiterate the opinions of others. Since I contradict what gets written here, I made damn sure that science, measurements, and math are its basis rather than rewriting the opinions of the "experts". Especially if those opinions don't solve the injury problem...

         

        While we're piling on, you've got some problems with your math that have been bugging me.  I may not be a biomimeticist, but I'm pretty solid with my dimensional analysis.  i know, I know, somebody's wrong on the internet (XKCD).  It hasn't been keeping me up, though.

         

        A while ago, you were talking about lateral drift:

         

        "Add in your lateral drift rate, which can measure as much as 5 ft per 20 seconds running, and the elite of distance running physically travel about 32 miles in a race while amateurs such as yourself can travel 36-39 miles by the time you cross the finish line."  Linky

         

        You don't state the race distance that you're talking about, but it's reasonable to assume that you are talking about the marathon in the above quote.  An elite athlete runs the marathon in ~7500 s.  Assuming the maximum lateral drift rate of .25 ft/s, the elite runner does an extra 1875 ft = 0.355 mi, or 26.57 <<< 32 mi.  Even a wobbly four-hour marathoner only goes an extra 0.7 mi.  All of this is probably of the same order (or less than) distance added due to imperfectly-run turns, dealing with road camber, other runners, pack racing strategy, etc.

         

        Even if it's a 50k, you're numbers don't work out, and how often are 50Ks measured accurately, anyways? Wink

        sport jester


        Biomimeticist

          You also show up on friday afternoons to play your game. 

          What game would that be?

          Experts said the world is flat

          Experts said that man would never fly

          Experts said we'd never go to the moon

           

          Name me one of those "experts"...

           

          History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

          xor


            All strawberry cakes do around here is make me fat.  I'd love to find some cakes that could give me a masage (sic).

             

            I think what I've learned from this is that I'm supposed to magically "know" (or ask plain-clothed nonparticipants) at every race near portland, including races he has specifically said he won't be near... "are you sport jester???"

             

            A lot of random people are going to think I'm weird(er).

             

            sport jester


            Biomimeticist

              While we're piling on, you've got some problems with your math that have been bugging me.  I may not be a biomimeticist, but I'm pretty solid with my dimensional analysis.  i know, I know, somebody's wrong on the internet (XKCD).  It hasn't been keeping me up, though.

               

              A while ago, you were talking about lateral drift:

               

              "Add in your lateral drift rate, which can measure as much as 5 ft per 20 seconds running, and the elite of distance running physically travel about 32 miles in a race while amateurs such as yourself can travel 36-39 miles by the time you cross the finish line."  Linky

               

              You don't state the race distance that you're talking about, but it's reasonable to assume that you are talking about the marathon in the above quote.  An elite athlete runs the marathon in ~7500 s.  Assuming the maximum lateral drift rate of .25 ft/s, the elite runner does an extra 1875 ft = 0.355 mi, or 26.57 <<< 32 mi.  Even a wobbly four-hour marathoner only goes an extra 0.7 mi.  All of this is probably of the same order (or less than) distance added due to imperfectly-run turns, dealing with road camber, other runners, pack racing strategy, etc.

               

              Even if it's a 50k, you're numbers don't work out, and how often are 50Ks measured accurately, anyways? Wink

               

              The measurements are the accumulative distance including vertical lift of the runner, lateral sway, and forward drift. Given that humans can't walk,  run, ride a bike, or drive a car in a perfectly straight line, those measurements include the added variables that you list above to give the final measure I listed.

              Experts said the world is flat

              Experts said that man would never fly

              Experts said we'd never go to the moon

               

              Name me one of those "experts"...

               

              History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

              JimR


                hee hee hee

                 

                'forward drift'

                sport jester


                Biomimeticist

                  hee hee hee

                   

                  'forward drift'

                   Sure

                  http://www.journalofvision.org/content/1/3/4

                   

                  If you train athletes beyond simple distance running, visual skills are just as important as physical ones.

                   

                  For basketball, soccer, tennis, volleyball, among many others, visual perception skills cue reaction times and responses

                   

                  http://www.journalofvision.org/content/6/11/6

                   

                  http://www.journalofvision.org/content/5/2/2

                   

                  http://www.journalofvision.org/content/4/8/801.abstract?sid=745f9375-34d0-4e0b-a5c7-370b5ddb4d12

                  Experts said the world is flat

                  Experts said that man would never fly

                  Experts said we'd never go to the moon

                   

                  Name me one of those "experts"...

                   

                  History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

                  JimR


                    well we sure don't want to drift forward when we run, that's fer sure...


                    #artbydmcbride

                      Hey!

                       

                      Runners run

                      JimR


                        xor


                          thread drift

                           

                          I'm so tight I squeak.

                           

                          JimR


                            thread drift

                             

                            I'm so tight I squeak.

                             

                            once in a race I started drifting ahead of the guy next to me.  man, I so had to stop myself, otherwise I woulda beat him. 


                            #artbydmcbride

                              The Back Seat Fart - This is a fart that occurs only in automobiles. It is identified chiefly by odor. The Back Seat Fart can usually be concealed by traffic noise as it is an eased-out fart and not very loud. But its foul odor will give it away, due to the way air moves around in a car. It is often followed by someone saying, "Who farted in the back seat?"

                               

                              Runners run

                                once in a race I started drifting ahead of the guy next to me.  man, I so had to stop myself, otherwise I woulda beat him. 

                                 You don't have to run the fastest to win a race...just drift ahead the straightest.