You should have the graph in the last blog…

First let me tell you about how it is constructed…

On the graph, which is really 6 tiny graphs, side by side - one for each of the six dogs in the race - you will see TIME in seconds on the vertical axis plotted against the last 6 RACES each dog has run. The RACES: 1 2 3 4 5 6 are on the horizontal axis of each tiny graph.

The fastest times are at the top of the graph and the slowest times at the bottom of the graph. The reason for doing that (as opposed to a normal graph, for example, temperature rising from 0 to100 degrees) is that I needed to have the dog’s fastest time performances as peaks and its slowest performances as troughs so that good form and bad form is instantly recognised.

The TIME axis is numbered: .10 .20 .30 .40 .50 .60 .70 .80 and .90 going downward. I have deliberately left out the INTEGER (the whole number). I have done this on purpose so that the graph can be used again and again for races of different distances. The numbers .10 to .90 are the number of ‘spots’ (or hundredths of a second) between the whole numbers.

To be continued on the next post…

Come racing!!