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Athletics · Foundation · 3 hours

The Athlete's Equations

Keller's pacing, Rapoport's wall, Banister's taper, and what heat, altitude, shoes and drafting do to a time.

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Keller's optimal 1500 m: full force to the cruise, hold it, and arrive with the anaerobicstore empty · 3:39.5024680306090120150180210time, sspeed, m/scruise 6.85 m/sanaerobic store, scaledstore emptyspeedwhat is left of the anaerobic store
What the course builds: the optimal way to spend a finite engine over a fixed distance.
Syllabus

What you will work through

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Pacing

1Keller's runner30 min · widget · 3 q2Rapoport's wall25 min · widget · 3 q

Training

3Fitness, fatigue and the taper25 min · widget · 3 q
Outcomes
  • Solve Keller's optimal pacing
  • Compute the fastest pace a glycogen store can pay for
  • Apply published effect sizes with their grades
  • Time a taper with the fitness–fatigue model
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