Use 300M Hurdle Marks to run the 400M Hurdles

Use 300M Hurdle Marks to run the 400M Hurdles

So, you're on a track that has the hurdle marks for the 300 Meter Intermediate Hurdles, but you want to run the 400 Meter Intermediate Hurdle race. What's a person to do?

Option 1: Create 10 new hurdle marks (because the 300M hurdle marks are 5 meters off)
Option 2: Create 3 new hurdle marks and backup the start/finish line by 5 meters.

If you select Option 1, measure out the proper spacing and create 10 new marks.

View current WMA specs here

If you select Option 2, here's what you do:

Let's call the Start/Finish Line for the 400 Meters the "0" mark. Therefore, the 300 Meter Hurdle race actually starts at the "100 Meter" mark around the 1st turn.

In order to utilize the hurdle marks that the 300 Meter race uses, just back up your Start/Finish line 5 meters, and then measure our the proper spacing to add 3 hurdles around the 1st turn. (Don't put a hurdle on the last hurdle mark of the 300 Meter race.) Cool, huh?

Check out the table below: (Everything is in metric)

Distance	Starting Line	Hurdle Mark Number										Finish Line
Distance	Starting Line	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Finish Line
300	100	145	180	215	250	285	320	355	390	N/A	N/A	0
400	395	40	75	110	145	180	215	250	285	320	355	395

Notice that in the 400 Meter race, Hurdles 4 through 10 exactly line up on the same marks as Hurdles 1 through 7 in the 300 Meter race!