With the Texas Relays and Penn Relays just behind us I got to thinking about relays and Quiet Fire’s Girl’s bantam team relay potential this season. Coach Henry has taught them to hand off amazing well so it’s just a matter of running like there’s no tomorrow……..
At Speedendurance.com. , my friend Jimson Lee has a cool way of Predicting 4×100 meter Relay Potential which leads to the question , Just how do you predict a 4×100 meter Relay time?
He says, add up the best 4 times of each athlete, subtract 1 sec (due to acceleration) for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th leg, and add 0.1 sec for each of the 3 exchanges. That’s the lead-off leg, 3 x 100m fly times, and 3 perfect exchanges.
Simply add the 4 open 100 meter times and subtract 2.7 seconds. All this assumes one thing: perfect passes and the baton makes it all around the track!
Don’t forget that for each exchange you can gain up to 5 feet (or 2 arms length) in “free distance” with your outstretched arms.
I estimate our bantam girl 4×100 team can run a potential 55.13 with the current PR’s. Only time will tell.
Until Next Time
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