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09-03-2014, 04:22 PM
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Could speed figures ever (or maybe have been?) made for other racing/timed sports?
Was kind of thinking the other day about other timed sports where conditions might change between uses making two different days, different in times. Anyone know, or can speculate?
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09-03-2014, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by cutchemist42
Was kind of thinking the other day about other timed sports where conditions might change between uses making two different days, different in times. Anyone know, or can speculate?
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09-03-2014, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by cutchemist42
Was kind of thinking the other day about other timed sports where conditions might change between uses making two different days, different in times. Anyone know, or can speculate?
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Sure, why not?
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09-03-2014, 07:24 PM
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I know something about track and field, and before the popularization of artificial tracks (principally tartan tracks in the 1960's and 1970's and mondo tracks thereafter), there definitely were people mucking around with time adjustments for different surfaces. For instance, a couple of cinder tracks in California, Trotter Track at UCLA and Edwards Stadium in Berkeley, were known as ridiculously fast surfaces, especially during hot weather when they got hot. Roberto Quercetani, an expert and track historian, had time adjustments for different surfaces.
Artificial tracks put a stop to this, though. Basically, the surfaces aren't really different enough for it to matter, and weather doesn't affect them. (Indeed, one of the reasons the powers that be in horse racing were so hopeful about equitrack and later polytrack was because of the unambiguously positive experience in track and field with these sorts of surfaces.)
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09-03-2014, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by cutchemist42
Was kind of thinking the other day about other timed sports where conditions might change between uses making two different days, different in times. Anyone know, or can speculate?
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A "speed figure" simply stated is a grade.
Therefore any object moving through space on land, water, or through the air can be graded and it doesn't make any difference if it is humans, animals, or machines.
The only requirements are measured distance of travel and measured time of travel because by definition speed =. Distance/Time.
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09-03-2014, 09:15 PM
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Track variants for pools?
Hey, you look for that wet track breeding. 
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