August 15 - Race Walk Championship WeekendSo many results, it has it's own page --- RESULTS
September 12 - USATF/MN 1 Hour Race Walk ChampionshipJudges: Bruce Leasure, Chris Dallager, Tom Boshart Weather: 65F, Sunny, no wind Location: St Paul Academy 400m outdoor track, Saint Paul, MN
Lap Counting Methodology Lap Counting Method 1: TimeMachine - start it at the gun, then enter each person's bib number when the cross the start/finish line on each lap. After the event, count how many times each bib number was entered. Compute the lap time for each lap, and make sure that, for any person, that they are about the same size. One that is double sized means you missed counting a lap.
Lap Counting Method 2: By Hand - keep a tally of the number of laps of each competitor. This is a very prone to errors, since there is no way to check if there are double counted laps, or missed laps.
Lap Counting Method 3: Sports Watch - as each athlete that was wearing a sports watch and counting laps with it to tell you how many laps they completed.
Lap counting method 1 is the primary method, and only laps counted by that method were counted. The other lap counting methods are used for verification. All lap counting methods agreed in the number of laps, except for the two people that were very close to the finish. In that case, lap counting method 2 reported an extra lap for them, as the person doing the tally's had already marked that lap as complete, even though it was not quite.
Partial Lap Methodology A small plastic bag with dirt and the tear-strip from the bottom of the athlete's bib was handed to each athlete the first time they crossed the start finish line with 5 minutes to go in the event. A whistle was blown when the hour was up, and each athlete dropped their bag on the track. A measuring wheel was placed at the start, about 6" from the white line marking the innermost edge of lane 1, and we measured one lap, trying to keep the measuring wheel at this distance from the white line around the entire track. Along the way we recorded the distance each bag was from the start. We took the measurement for the entire lap and divided it into 400 to get a correction factor for the partial lap measurements. Each partial lap measurement was multiplied by the correction factor to get the final "meters of partial lap" value.
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