My goal in life is to build a track on my own property.
My goal in life is to build a track on my own property.
hmmm, initial googling says the minimum cost is close to $100,000 and that's just for installation--doesnt include maintainence and repair.
I'm with you on that one.
I do work for some people who buy boats, buy vacation homes in Florida, or even start up "hobby" business's.
After buying that log cabin in the woods with miles of running trails, I would build myself a track. With a water pit of course.
We are raising $250,000 for ours. Would have been more but we are replacing and can use the grade from the old one.
mr obvious wrote:
We are raising $250,000 for ours. Would have been more but we are replacing and can use the grade from the old one.
wow. what kind of fundraising are you doing? any corporate sponsors involved?
When we renovated our facility it cost $300,000. We removed the old rubber surface, stripped the top layer of asphalt, then regraded it and added the new surface. Also flip flopped the high jump and steeple pit, since they were originally installed in the wrong spot. The LJ/TJ and PV runways were totally removed and regraded, then added 2 LJ/TJ runways and a double ended PV runway. Hope that helps.
thanks for the info.
how did you pay for it all?
rubbery stuff wrote:
wow. what kind of fundraising are you doing? any corporate sponsors involved?
None that I know of. We are a small community with no large businesses. You can buy a meter of the track for $75. Everyone who buys one gets their name listed on a board at the track. The athletic boosters are raising the money any way they can with various type of fundraisers. It will be a long slow process.
The track is already nonusable for any big meets.
mr obvious wrote:
None that I know of. We are a small community with no large businesses. You can buy a meter of the track for $75. Everyone who buys one gets their name listed on a board at the track. The athletic boosters are raising the money any way they can with various type of fundraisers. It will be a long slow process.
heh, that's what i figured--but around here thare are major corporations. i know a high school coach who has started an endowment for a track. the track team is a beneficiary of a race I RD--the proceeds are going towards that track--just seems like a drop in a very big bucket.
we recently built one from scratch. We went with very reputable contractors and companies. It totaled up near 1 million, with grading and all.
A decent company can resurface it for 250,000 and a good one for 300,000. But if you are starting from scratch you'll have to pony up a lot more for grading and base layer stuff.
I am going to dig deep and donate as much as I can. When I ran (early 80's), we had the only all weather in the county. In the last few years, the other three schools all have new tracks. The last couple years, our school has had our invite at one of the other schools tracks. Lanes 1 and 2 are like running on concrete.
How does the cost of a track stack up against the cost of the ball field inside it? The just built a brand new facility at the HS near me. It has a nice rubbery track and the football field is the latest in artificial grass. There's all kinds of signs and rules posted on the use of the field, but there's benches and various other pieces of equipment sitting on the track surface, which I'm sure can't be good for it.
Good info. try to keep those numbers in mind when you complain about the condition of your local HS track, or bitch about schools blockading the 1st two lanes.
It's not easy to come up with $250,000 for a non-revenue sport like T&F.
Our school is looking into adding a field turf field inside our track (the current FB stadium) and also adding lights. The estimate on the cost is 1 million, for the turf and the lighting system.
About $300k is right if you're renovating. It'll be much more if you're starting from scratch. It cost $80k just to touch up and re-line our track two years ago after having it completely redone 5 years ago for just under $300k. They did the football field at the same time as its difficult to do one without the other (hard to drive a bulldozer around without wrecking the surface you're driving on whether it be turf or track).
Here, read this old thread:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=895115&thread=894979
To cut costs, make it two lanes wide, one for leading and one for passing. For large race fields, mow the outer edge short.