Track use in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium After Renovations -- Soccer Games Every Wednesday?

Ha ha ha ha ha!

^ not from SF, since username contains term "frisco"

well, SFer124213, it looks like we were both (trying to run) at the track on wednesday. this has happened before, but it was my first time trying to work out there since it's reopened. i wa ssooo pissed. per the fat man in the SF Park and Rec jacket standing near the arch, when i said "can i just run in lane 9??", "if i let you, i have to let everyone". yes, and that is what the TRACK is for.

1. no idea. probably not consistent every week. yes, i too wish they posted more than a month's schedule. the current one is dismal... so many days of use by non-running.

2. idk

3. THIS. THIS THIS THIS.

4. mostly agree. i did (shocker) T&F/XC in high school and our meets usually started in late afternoon. we left school a bit early and had to travel often. i'm guessing that's why games would start later, but yeah, this one STARTING at 6:45 (that's when i got to the track, at least) is pretty insane.

i bailed and tried (and failed) to do my workout on park roads. i hate that asphalt path, espec when it's crowded by massive groups. not much runner etiquette going on up there.

is it possible to petition or something? or at least just to get some times down? it's tough because they pay to rent it out, so sfparkrec makes money from that. but honestly, there are a lot of fields in SF that don't have tracks around them. we have 3 tracks in the entire city. one of them might as well be in daly city bc it's so far away (SFSU), the other is locked at night (McAteer HS, my workout buddies and i literally slither under the fence to get in and use headlamps).

i was soooo ragey on wednesday. glad i'm not the only one. :(

to the players and possibly some of their parents, the hs soccer games are very high stakes. Doing well and having the stats to be seen by recruiters is the difference between trying out at a D3 and a soccer scholarship that could possibly put the players through 4 years of school at say Cal, UCSB, UCSD, U of San Fran, etc. Its a shame they can't have dedicated soccer only fields to use so they don't have to take up the track too.

I wonder if soccer will go back to the Beach Chalet fields after the turf is installed. I often run on the dirt track around the Polo Field and have noticed more kids' soccer games than usual around there as well.

ooh i didn't realize soccer is usually by the chalet. do you know how long turf installation has been going on? / any predicted endpoint?

in need of speedwork wrote:

ooh i didn't realize soccer is usually by the chalet. do you know how long turf installation has been going on? / any predicted endpoint?

Thank you "in need of speedwork" I was pretty ragey too!We'll just have to develop etiquette for the asphalt path if this becomes a common problem. The biggest problem is that the path is the only way for people to walk to and from the bleachers from the entrance gates -- so walkers and runners will just have to stay to the left, I guess.Here's the schedule, for reference: http://sfrecpark.org/wp-content/uploads/Kezar-Stadium-Schedule-March-2015.pdfThat is exactly what I would like to be able to understand: When does the park's department think we are SUPPOSED to be able to use it? It's totally unreasonable to give us the schedule a month at a time and have random days and times where we can use it or not. I saw several clubs out there on Wednesday, and I know it's usually crowded on Tuesdays but the track was occupied from 4pm until CLOSED on Tuesday! It just isn't reasonable to expect so many different groups to coordinate their own meeting times and days on a weekly basis while simultaneously trying to stay out of each other's way. There need to be at least a few weekdays in the middle of each week (Tuesday-Thursday) where the track is useable after normal working hours or you have the situation where hundreds of people are trying to use it at once. If there aren't public hours then it isn't a public good.This high school had the field from 4pm to 8:30pm. I don't know how a soccer game could last that long, or more importantly, how the park's department could allow them to book it for so long! I didn't get there at 4pm so I'm not sure what they were doing then but they stayed out there until at least 8pm./rant

There's still no reason why it has to be done in such a way that so many people are inconvenienced. This week if you wanted to do a workout on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday you had to do it on Thursday after 6:30pm. On Wednesday the only time it was open was the half hour between 9pm and 9:30pm (I mistyped in my previous post, they had it booked until 9pm and closing time is 9:30).

Edward Teach wrote:

to the players and possibly some of their parents, the hs soccer games are very high stakes. Doing well and having the stats to be seen by recruiters is the difference between trying out at a D3 and a soccer scholarship that could possibly put the players through 4 years of school at say Cal, UCSB, UCSD, U of San Fran, etc. Its a shame they can't have dedicated soccer only fields to use so they don't have to take up the track too.