Optimal Pacing of 400m and 800m Races: A Standard Microeconomics Approach

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dc.contributor.authorGunby PP
dc.contributor.authorWatt R
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-26T01:25:05Z
dc.date.available2018-04-26T01:25:05Z
dc.date.issued2016en
dc.date.updated2017-10-26T07:08:51Z
dc.description.abstractThe optimal way for an athlete to run 400m and 800m races has long been debated by athletes, coaches, and more recently by physicists and applied mathematicians. These two particular running events are different from both shorter and longer races, due to their emphasis upon an athlete’s lactate system. If the first part of the race is run either too quickly (in which case the fatigue that is generated makes the second half of the race both slow and painful) or too slowly (in which case even though the second half will be fast, it cannot make up for the time lost earlier on),2 the total time for the entire distance will not be as fast as it could otherwise have been. In this paper we discuss this choice problem in a standard microeconomic setting, and we solve for the optimal “split” times for the first and second half of the race.en
dc.identifier.citationGunby PP, Watt R (2016). Optimal Pacing of 400m and 800m Races: A Standard Microeconomics Approach. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY. Christchurch. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/15227
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURYen
dc.subjectconstrained optimizationen
dc.subjectmicroeconomicsen
dc.subjectathleticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::11 - Medical and Health Sciences::1106 - Human Movement and Sports Science::110699 - Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classifieden
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::38 - Economics::3803 - Economic theory::380304 - Microeconomic theoryen
dc.titleOptimal Pacing of 400m and 800m Races: A Standard Microeconomics Approachen
dc.typeDiscussion / Working Papersen
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