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The Tape System

H1 is zero. One color down the track. Colors are practice spacings; black is race truth.

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Three Rules

Zero point: H1 is always zero. Measure every mark from H1.One color: use the same color down the track for a consistent drill.Down only: when rounding is required, calculate independently and round down.

Coach notes
  • Formula: mark = spacing x (hurdle number - 1).
  • Do not measure hurdle to hurdle. Do not build later marks by adding rounded values. Shorter is always preferred to longer.
  • Use color plus label. The label matters as much as the color.
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Five Colors

Colors are practice spacings. Black is race truth.

ColorPurposeWomen 100mHMen 110mH
RedFrequency / max discount7.3 m or 24 ft7.94 m or 26 ft
BlueHeavy discount7.6 m or 25 ft8.24 m or 27 ft
GreenModerate rhythm7.9 m or 26 ft8.54 m or 28 ft
YellowRace-feel opener8.2 m or 27 ft8.84 m or 29 ft
BlackRace truth8.5 m race spacing9.14 m or 30 ft race spacing
Colors and purposes
Coach notes
  • Choose the athlete group, then the tape format (metric, engineer's feet, feet and inches, or whole-foot imperial), then one color.
  • The metric and imperial color families are separate systems. 7.3 m is not exactly 24 ft (24 ft is 7.3152 m). Use one tape format at a time.
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Women's Black Is Not 28

Women's feet-side colors come from the 28-foot family: 24, 25, 26, 27.Black is not 28, 56, 84. Black is the true 8.50 m race mark converted to the tape format.

Coach notes
  • 8.50 m is 27.887 ft, so the women's black marks run 27.8, 55.7, 83.6 ft on an engineer's tape, or 27 ft 10 in, 55 ft 9 in, 83 ft 7 in on a feet-and-inches tape, each rounded down.
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Related

  • Women's 100mH Tape -- Metric, engineer's feet, and feet-and-inches marks from H1 = 0.
  • Men's 110mH Tape -- Whole-foot imperial, and metric in two display variants that the sources do not reconcile.
  • The Tape Ladder Is the ABC Ladder -- Red, Blue, Green and Yellow sit 4, 3, 2 and 1 feet under race spacing: the A, B, C reps and the working-set home.

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