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Re: I'm a finalist!
***WARNING*** The following is excessively lawyerish, and probably is not graciously professional. Alas, this is a civilian contest, where it's eat or be eaten.
Yes, it's a Razor-y scooter afaik. I am yet to see any rule that prohibits that. However, I'm not really sure about that. See, if I'm running with the scooter, then I lose free work. When I'm going with the scooter in a straight (or semi-straight) line, I have one foot causing friction with the track momentarily, then I coast on something with a far lower coefficient of friction with the asphalt (here, free-rotating scooter wheel on asphalt) than my left shoe. So I think that by actually scooting, I could probably save energy in movement, letting me exert less of a force for the same time...letting me use any remaining oomph in my leg to go faster.
Lemme ask if anyone knows this--if I train for my 41.67 feet uphill, would I be training my leg to exert more force over a flat 41.67 feet, or to exert that same level of force over a longer distance?
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