Building a new track – 4
Obviously, running in the outside lanes of a track is a disadvantage, and of course, these lanes' starting lines are offset to account for that.
For every lap that has to be run in lane 8 (in most stadiums the outermost lane), the runner gets a head start of 53.66m.
If a 10,000m race was held on a 400m-track where each runner has to stay in their lanes for the whole race, where would the runner in lane 8 have to start to finish at the finish line?
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1 solution
10000m in a 453.66m-lane means 1 0 0 0 0 ÷ 4 5 3 . 6 6 ≈ 2 2 . 0 4 3 laps, so 22 laps and 19.48m, which means the runner has to start about 20m away from the finish line .