Critical Velocity

This first few posts are to get the threads started, then, hopefully, the site will be self-sustaining.

I recently wrote an analysis of Kate Ziegler's world record in the 1,500m. You can check it out here. I also looked at Grant Hackett's 1,500's in Fukuoka and Athens which show slower SR's than Ziegler's. As I said to Andy Adair, many of the top guys are around 45/minute but Hackett, of course, is eighteen feet tall so to go 45’s with his usual 2.7/2.8 SL would mean he was repping around 48 seconds for each 100!!! I found the comparison between the WR and the 2004 gold fascinating. He is going to be in real trouble (as he was of course in Melbourne) unless he gets the SR back up.

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