Originally Posted by
carleton
You are still waaaay too high.
Understand that if you are new, you can shave off a full second in back to back runs using the same gear by simply adjusting your windup and/or your line.
To explain my point, open your phone to the stopwatch app and see just how fast a second goes by.
The 0.2s gain you found could simply be stopwatch user error or you pulling your shorts up tighter
Carleton,
Your comment got me to thinking, about how good or bad is a stop watch. Since, I worked as an official doing manual stop watch backups at our regionals and the UCI sprint events this year, I thought I would measure my performance versus the electronic timing this past weekend. The electronic timing had an average Men's 200m time of 10.70s or 10.693s for the perfectionists. With a sample size of 37, my manual timings show no bias plus or minus to a hundredth of a second and a mean error of 3/100ths of second. My maximum error was 7/100ths. Not too bad, I think.