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I wrote a small Perl script to help out Athletes with lap times (splits.) The script is based on knowing a time you want to do for a particular distance first - it shows you how many laps the distance is (sometimes it is easy to forget), what average lap time you would need to do and what times you would clock for other distances if you were averaging that lap time.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Std;
use POSIX qw(floor);
my %args;
sub Usage {
print "Usage:\n\t$0 -d distance -m mins -s secs [ -t track length ]\n";
}
getopt('dmst', \%args);
for (['d', 'distance'], ['m', 'minutes'], ['s', 'seconds']) {
my ($short, $long) = ($_->[0], $_->[1]);
if (! defined($args{$short}) or $args{$short} !~ /^\d+$/) {
Usage && die "\tPlease ensure ${long} is an integer.\n"
}
}
Usage && die "\tSeconds must be between 0 and 59." if ($args{'s'} > 59);
if (defined($args{'t'}) && $args{'t'} !~ /^\d+$/) {
Usage && die "\tPlease ensure track length is an integer.\n"
}
my $track_distance = $args{'t'} || 400;
my $laps = $args{'d'} / $track_distance;
printf("%dm is %.2f laps.\n", $args{'d'}, $laps);
my $time_in_seconds = ($args{'m'} * 60) + $args{'s'};
my $lap_time = $time_in_seconds / $laps;
printf("Average lap time is %.1f seconds.\n", $lap_time);
print "\n";
print "At this speed,\n";
for my $distance (400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000, 10000) {
my $new_time = $lap_time * ($distance / $track_distance);
my $new_minutes = floor($new_time / 60);
my $new_seconds = sprintf("%0.2d", $new_time % 60);
printf("\t%5dm -> %2dm %.2ds\n", $distance, $new_minutes, $new_seconds);
}
Usage example for figuring out average lap time of a 5km race if you wanted to run it in 16 minutes:
$ ./tracktime -d 5000 -m 16 -s 00
5000m is 12.5 laps.
Average lap time is 76.8 seconds.
At this speed,
400m -> 1m 16s
800m -> 2m 33s
1500m -> 4m 48s
3000m -> 9m 36s
5000m -> 16m 00s
10000m -> 32m 00s
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