I just saw on youtube a video of a one mile heat which had >30 kids in it, dang. What's the most amount of people you've seen, or heard of, crammed onto a track?
I just saw on youtube a video of a one mile heat which had >30 kids in it, dang. What's the most amount of people you've seen, or heard of, crammed onto a track?
They run 48 at a time in the 10ks at NCAA regionals every year
About 52+ at Oxy, in the last heat of the 5k.
Sf state distance festival is another meet with lots of people jammed into some heats.
More than 30 in a mile is pretty absurd, though. Not as bad in a 5k/10k
I was involved in a dual meet once where three schools had about 40 boys in the 1600.
I wanted two heats, the other coaches wouldn't do it. It was a fiasco.
When you say "amount of people," are you looking for a total mass of all of the runners present? Or did you mean "number of people"?
Penn Relays Thursday distance night really packs 'em in. I've seen 50+ in heats of the 5000.
In Senftenberg, Germany, there's an indoor marathon on a banked 250 metres track.
The marathon had 48 finishers last years. There are also races of 3k, 5k, 10k, and half marathon with around 60 finishers each.
My first year coaching, we went to an invite where they had 83 kids in the frosh soph 1600. All were in 1 heat.
Many Olympic Marathon courses start on the track inside the Olympic Stadium and return there to finish.
Maybe 150
Going back a while, my annual in-school track meet always concluded with an all-age 1500. Easily 100 kids. Kids are pulled just before being overtaken.
Oh don't get me started on NCAA regional's. That was the worst running experience of my life. Nearly 50 people. If you are trying to run in a lead pack and are in an outer lane, some runners could be running an extra few hundred metres over the entire 25 laps. I done this in 2004. First of all I got a bad start, and literally was dodging everyone in the races. I was exhausted catching the lead pack. But I was going so wide to get past people. I don't remember ever been more inner then the third lane. It was also so awkward when overlapping people. I nearly fell and had to almost literally come to a stop when passed runners at the back of the field. I actually dropped out of this race after 21 laps. I was never at the front of the race, but at the point I dropped out, I must have run a greater actually distance then the leader at that point on time.
About 15 years ago I took part in a 10k run entirely in Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway which had about 200 people running.
People were amazingly courteous about staying to the outside if they were slower so you could always pass on the inside. I ran the entire thing in lane 1 at ~5:40 pace. Photo of the start (which I'm in) below.
https://oslo.diamondleague.com/fileadmin/_processed_/6/e/csm_bislettmila22_1caec99642.jpg
Since you say ran the entire thing in lane 1 and you post like an idiot I can only assume you're wearing bib 14
avgletsrunhater wrote:
Since you say ran the entire thing in lane 1 and you post like an idiot I can only assume you're wearing bib 14
I should have said that I ran the entire thing, except for the start, in lane 1. I'm #156.
lmaoooooooooooooooooo
There was about 70 of us in the 10k at Oxy a few years ago.
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