You keep hearing about my experience with high level competition? Really? How many times have you heard about my experience around high level competition? Isn’t it like 2? I haven’t dropped any names….is 2 times about my experience is too many and it gave you a complex? Jeez I had no idea, I’m sorry.

About what it means, well, it means exactly what it says. Go back to where you saw me write it and read it again….if you can find any…..and if you still can’t understand what I wrote, just send me a note and I’ll be a good scout and give you a nice slooooow personal answer. Hows that for good custiomer service, huh?!

I thought that some guys, engineers though they may be, and MAYbe they know the difference between a meter and a yard………but I thought that maybe don’t follow track & field as closely as I do, and may not know how utterly foolish it would be to compare a time run in an old 100 yard race (about 10 yards shorter!) to the 100 meter races of today.

Especially bad comparison since practically the entire field of 100 meter runners in our recent USA Championships beat Hayes’ time like it was a Michael Vick puppy.

I mean, I didn’t mean to denigrate you personally……..I was just going on experience when I thought most guys might not know the difference in races and times because a lot of the guys I drink beer with don’t know that. So I figured guys here might not either.

And NOW edpjr tell’s me how you guys on here are all genuis engineers who have aparently regsitered for something, and thats why you’re too smart to get fooled by a foot or a meter?

How could that be since edpjr seemed to have no clue about the races Bob Hayes ran or how they compare to today………and that’s where the empirical evidence comes from (look it up) to compare them with in the first place (their times)

 But I understand. Really, I do understand. Because my beer drinking, football fan buddies didn’t know either, and we all worked together for 10 of the last 12 years in the hardcore engineering laboratories in Intel Corp in Folsom CA….so if they didn’t know it, I figured some small % of the guys here may not know it.

I guess I really can’t be surprised, that an engineer………. with no experience with high level competition ….. JK! No really, JK ……doesn’t know the difference in timing systems likely means that Haye’s 9.7s becomes a 9.96s when converted to the FAT timing of today, which is something I didn’t even mention before because I thought hand time to automatic time conversions would be either too dry or over your head, but now that I find out you guys are all engineers,……..

I’ll just toss it on top of the heap mountain of reasons why Haye’s FAT-converted time of 9.96s…….over a distance of 100 yards 90 meters ….would have had Hayes too far behind the winners to even smell their Old Spice aftershave in the wind.

There’s no comparison. None. If you have non-anecdotal data to support your position, I’m all ears.

I remember back in 1981 (maybe it as 82?) , I was talking with Herschel Walker as he put his sweats back on, after blasting through a 100 meter final in 10.25s at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships at Hughes Stadium here in Sacramento. He was reasonably happy with his time but disappointed that he wasn’t in contention for a medal. He was probably able to console himself later knowing that if Bob Hayes wouldve been in the race, he would’ve been so far behind him, 18 feet or so, that he could have never tackled big ’ol Herschel on an open field run to the end zone.
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