What is the strangest track you know of?

Beacher wrote:

What 1500 link?

Please post.

Thank you.

Remember the East Tennessee indoor facility with the 385 meter track? Not that strange I guess, but awesome.

OK, here is the link. Some other great Jim Ryun clips.

Does a straight 400m track exist? I can't remember what they ran at the Olympics in ancient Greece but I think it might have been a 200m track with a 180 degree turn at the end. I'm wondering if track world records only stand if they are run on an oval.

My high school track was UPHILL all the way around. If you did a long workout your ears would pop due to the change in altitude.

lol

The track at Centenniel Middle School in Boulder is on a slight grade. There is easily a .5 sec difference between the uphill 200 and downhill 200.

The VMI indoor facility. Complete with banked straightaways and a tunnel.

FYI The ETSU indoor track is 285 yards

[quote]Wild Willie wrote:

The VMI indoor facility. Complete with banked straightaways and a tunnel./quote]

good call. i hate that track.

stoutchemist wrote:

You can also Google Earth the Nike track. Just type in Beaverton, then look to the left of Commonwealth Lake and Johnson Spring. Right on the corner.

6 lines and no steeple pit>? what do they use it for??

i meant "lanes" of course...

chasss wrote:

stoutchemist wrote:

You can also Google Earth the Nike track. Just type in Beaverton, then look to the left of Commonwealth Lake and Johnson Spring. Right on the corner.

6 lines and no steeple pit>? what do they use it for??

unc-asheville has a shitty one, or they used to

it has like 4 banks on it and they level off...only ran on it once but it was horrible

VMI is bad news too

In the vicinity of UNC-Asheville....Appalachian State has a shitty indoor track. It's shaped like an octagon and it's 300m in the second lane. Plus you can't see around the track because it runs around the outside perimeter of the basketball arena. So if you haven't run on the track before you get very disoriented because of the odd shape and the fact that you can't see how far you've gone around the track until you make one full lap.

8-lane, 400 meter track in Nottingham, England, marked lanes 0-7

Only the Brits!

The Rutgers indoor track is kind of wacky. It's a giant bubble with a 300m square track

this is the same as the old clemson 300m track...in littlejohn, when the doors to the bathroom opened, lane 1 was impeded and it was impossible to know where you were

the Ohio state track of the early to middle 1900's... it had 200 meter straight-aways that went out of the stadium... now that would be fun, a straight 200 meter dash.

At the University of Nebraska, there are two indoor competition tracks (sort of).

The Devaney Center is home to the unbelievable banked surface people commonly know.

But across campus in Memorial Stadium there is another. It's a kidney shaped track that is now a storage room. It's dank and musty, and was given the nickname, "Mushroom Garden".

I don't know how long it is, but the record board is certainly amazing, name wise, as Jim Ryun ran very close to 4 minutes on the surface.

You must have your years confused, Otis Hill did not run at Olympic Trials in 1968 (unless my memory totally fails me). It was Vince Matthews who was fourth and was on the 4x400 relay that won at Mexico City. I don't think Otis Hill was even around then, as he did not run at NCAA or first trials.

I am surprised no one mentioned the Drake track (Drake Relays), which had three turns and three straights.

there is a track i ran on in highschool at a community college that was on a hill and was concrete

t16runner wrote:

the Ohio state track of the early to middle 1900's... it had 200 meter straight-aways that went out of the stadium... now that would be fun, a straight 200 meter dash.

Running the 220y on the straight was the norm in the US until the 1950s. I've never seen it, but they say the video of Tommie Smith's 19.5 is amazing.

Back in the '50s and earlier, the used to run the 440y at OSU around just one turn. It helps. A high school kid ran 46.6 way back in '58 that way.

my school's got a banked 20 lap to the mile indoor track that is on the second floor and suspended over a basketball court. nice for warm ups and cool downs when its really shitty out in the winter.