Originally Posted by
Buffalo.Rider
I believe that was about a 6' improvement over her previous best, before this meet. More than 12% improvement.
If this is correct, that is a crazy breakout performance. Many would be happy with a few inches here, few inches there improvement. A foot or two, really happy. Six feet, hard to describe. A 12% improvement improvement in the 400m would be like going from a personal best of 50 seconds to 44 seconds, or from a 1500m in 4:00 to a 3:31, a personal best long jump from 24 ft to 26 ft 1.5 inches.