There is a time and a place to test such ideas, that place is not a competition.
I used my regular chair for the 400m and clocked a time of 50.24 which is pretty remarkable becuase I was told this track was extremly slow.
I missed my 200m because with 30 minutes to go, they said they were running 20 minutes late which by my calculation meant my race would be in 50 minutes. Some how, they ran the race 8 minutes before the time it was supposed to based on the schedule. I almost made it but when I jumped into my chairm my wheels got loose and the time it to repair it was the exact amount of time to run a 200m (about 28 seconds).
Around the same time of the 200m,, it also started to rain heavy and didn't let up for the rest of the day. I decided to bail in the 100m and get home a little earlier and slightly dryer. Running my new setup in the rain would have been a terrible idea as I don't have control in the dry and can only assume it would be worse on a wet track.
After some playing around with my Eagle racing chair last night, I dialed in the wheels and weight distribution perfect. I will not revisit the idea of a sprinting chair until after China.
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How many timnes have you been around the issue of an 100 m chair...it seems to me that you are a very determined young man, or not learn from your mistakes. ha ha. Keep up with the entries they are quite entertaining and have been giving me a few chuckles.
Keep up the good work, we are all very proud of you.
your family in the 'Peg.
If training is consistantly going well and I'm opporating at (or near) 100% all the time, I need to find that extra 1% somewhere. The problem is I know my Eagle chair weighs an extra 4 pounds and although superior and rigid, in a race that only last 14 second, I have to think that the extra weight is costing me some fractions of a second.
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