Almost certainly. But then they won’t be chip timing you either, needs a man in a blazer with a stopwatch unless they get the photo finish equipment out.
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‘Cos parkrun is never 5km 
Our equivalent club 5k track day uses normal chip timing like you would have in a triathlon. I was assuming they’d be doing similar here. We used to get a breakdown of 400m splits on our results for our club event
Can you set your watch to record every second and lap at 400m?
Or is the GPS terrible inside a stadium?
(I’ve never ran a track with GPS so wouldn’t know!)
Ankle chip or number chip? The number chip will at least take the time from the torso, but even then the tolerance on the finish line is going to be significant I would have thought. OK for timing a 5K to the nearest 1sec, but a track 5000m would normally be hand times to the nearest 0.1sec or photo finish to the nearest 0.01sec.
As @Poet says, it’s why a track race is 5000m but a road race is 5K.
If your garmin has a track mode it’s brilliant. Otherwise it’s crap and you’d be better off hitting lap at whatever interval you fancy.
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Requested to stalk thee 
That opening KM 
Looks like 6,7,8,9 were pretty grim, picked it back up for the last km though 
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Haha thanks. 25 laps of the track is always going to be a bit grim. Only done it the once but a good experience.
The hardest thing I found was you know your target is say 1:18 a lap and suddenly you do a 1:20 lap. Sounds nothing but to then go from 1:20 to 1:16 is actually a significant effort increase so all of a sudden a couple seconds can become massive!
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But then your brain goes;
14 laps to go, so I can make up those 2s at ~0.15s per lap, so I need to be lapping at 77.85s
And I’ll easily make a second on the final lap…
16:20 5k PB - NICEEEEE
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I wonder how those 3s feel though 
I keep thinking I’d like to get quick again, then I go and do a fartlek session and am reminded that speedwork sucks, I don’t enjoy it, so why bother 
Totally agree. On the road, a second here or there seems hard to judge. On the track, every second becomes really noticeable. Doing 800 repeats in around 2:40-2:45 felt really hard earlier in the summer. To actually break 17, I need to be going at the lower end of that range continuously. 40.5s 200s is a scary prospect!
My mate who knows a lot, has waited a long long time to get the dragonFly spikes for the track. I think they are the best, just very difficult to get hold of (esp in NZ)
And on another very relevant note, my club did a 5000m time trial/race on Saturday at the track. My first (un)official attempt at a full on 5k on the track.
There were 37 of us!
I was in my NEXT’s, wanted to try and hold 80’s a lap for a 16:40.
I thought I was, but as it transpires it was more 81/82 a lap. Still good enough to come under 17, I don’t know the exact time as I didn’t stop my watch at the line. But happy that I was under 17 on an official distance as all road races I do think there is a margin for error on the road additionallyof course with 37 people there was a fair bit of overtaking so it was actually longer.
As it turns out I had a train behind me for the whole time. The youngun’s both jumped me at the end, but at least I managed to keep the couple of 50+es at bay =:slight_smile:
I think I had more in the tank and was lacking someone to chase down at the end in a real proper race
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Brilliant effort mate. If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you?
46 from memory. Though if you look at me you can tell I had a long paper round
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Nice work! I’m probably aiming to hold 81 per lap, so very similar. How did you find the NEXT%? I’ve done some 800’s in them on the track earlier in the year, and they still felt fast.
This made me realise they are also made with ZoomX. I may have just found a random single pair, in my size, on a website we get club discount. Oops.
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very impressive 
Yeah they felt good.
We were all a bit disappointed with our times in some ways. The theory over here is that the jump in pace from road to track of days gone by is negated somewhat by the foam of the super shoe.
Those dragonflys may negate that negate though… I will watch from afar.
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Just to follow up on this, final race instructions have pointed to the following link providing legal shoes/spikes, so NEXT% wouldn’t be allowed:
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