'Splain to me why a piece of flexible foam on a stake should cost about $25. Or is that including installation...
I'm not intending to detract from the importance of this effort- just puzzled by the cost. And also- curious just HOW DO you put those foot-long stakes into the salt?
Actually about $31.25 a piece as 6 are needed per mile if we go to the 8 mile, 48 total. In this day and age where it is hard to get volunteers to do anything and people pay for about everything I guess if they have to have some business do these then that isn't a bad price. How many of us would make these for the cause on our time and if we were doing if for profit what would we charge? This late in the game if they are going to get done they are probably going to have to pay someone to make them. I'm going to try and catch Scott today and make sure there is still time to have these made.
I think we all like to watch the videos of peoples runs and watch the 1/4 mile markers go by and say to ourselves he is at the 3, the 3 1/4, the 3 1/2, etc.. That will also be gone for those of us that go along for the ride in the car with the driver.
Another point to be considered is if you data log your run and video it you can see what your car speed is at each quarter mile. From the video you know the seconds from the start of the run to the end of the run. You data log also shows data at every second. By knowing how many seconds you are in the run at say the 2 1/5 you can look at your RPM at the same number of seconds and know your speed. This gives you some comparable data to use. Right now most of us use the 2 1/4 time but more can be better. Our 3, 4, and 5 mile times are averages and we don't know for instance what our speed was at the 4 1/4.
So besides the safety aspect there is the visual aspect to any of us viewing run videos and the importance of more useable data from us running a car. How much is that worth to any of us?
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