Back in the day, Kenyon College in Ohio had a their track wedged in between a railroad track and the side of a hill. It was definitely triangular.
Back in the day, Kenyon College in Ohio had a their track wedged in between a railroad track and the side of a hill. It was definitely triangular.
dfadfds wrote:
To the original poster -- I live near there, is the track open to the public? I'll take my running club there one day if it is...
Sorry, but I'm not sure if it's open to the public. I believe it's a private high school. Go by and check it out if you're not too far from there. Best of luck.
No, but I've ran on a track shaped like a rhombus, or rather a rombus. You smell.
paris island marine corp base. saw this at my sisters graduation and wanted to run on it so bad but i wasnt allowed.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=32.343893,-80.671406&spn=0.005031,0.011727&t=h&z=17&om=0
Since the thread is about different tracks; here is the one on the Nike Campus with trees in the middle:
Neah Kah Nie High has one that has a curve that goes around a baseball diamond. unique
That is one of the biggest parking lots I've ever seen.
Beautiful track though. I'd run there...
I loved running on the Nike track and the wood chip trail. Here's a square track that I've been to.
Is the wood chip trail in those woods just south of the track?
A dirt track of 1/4 mile (not meters)
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1571476
Very easy track to do pace work on.
Triangular tracks are quite common; they're almost always around baseball fields. There are at least 3 (all old cinder track, in various states of disrepair)in Fairfield County.
Funny that ADs etc. think nothing of building a track that's not the standard oval shape - what do you think would happen if they tried to build a FB or soccer field that was narrower at one end than the other, or wasn't prefectly square?
If my memory is right, I recall Ft. Eustis' track as a perfect circle. Of nasty old concrete. Anybody ever run on such a thing?
Though I just looked at Google Earth and it looks like they put in a rubber (or probably asphalt) oval.
Here's where Dad took us all down to run the mile in Macon when we were kids. 1-mile dirt track. Somebody said it used to be for horse racing.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.830684,-83.611579&t=h&z=16
JimG wrote:Funny that ADs etc. think nothing of building a track that's not the standard oval shape - what do you think would happen if they tried to build a FB or soccer field that was narrower at one end than the other, or wasn't prefectly square?
Misshapen track and football field:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=0&ll=47.267023,-122.449027&spn=0.001383,0.002511&z=19from '10 things I hate about you'
kdjfsp wrote:
Is the wood chip trail in those woods just south of the track?
Yes it is. It is covered by the trees but the wood chip path goes around the outside of the whole campus. There are bridges to go over the driveways so it is essentially unbroken all the way around. To the North west is the Renoldo fields. At the right end is the Tiger woods building and Lance Armstrong building at the left end.
Nice and square. Before it was resurfaced, the 'curve' across the bottom was actually across a slight incline so the outside lane was about 4 feet higher than lane one.
set an amazing '800 pr' on this track:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.794598,-84.315806&spn=0.001694,0.002511&t=h&z=19
During Christmas break of my sophomore year in high school (1984), decided to do an 800 time trial at the high school near my house. At the time my PRs were :57 and 2:09. I split 54-65 for a 1:59.
Contacted the Druid Hills coach in January to find out the track was ~390 yards.
Here's one at the University of Texas at Austin:
I used to run with the RunTex group at one in Austin, I think it's the same one. Looks like they've done some construction in that area since 1996 and taken the upper end out and replaced it with a building. There used to be a full loop of the outside (left) part which totaled about 600 meters. You can't tell from the photo, but if it's the same one, the stretch from the tennis court to the bottom part of the track has a huge downhill in it. Probably drops 20-30 feet in less than 50 meters. We'd do two-person team relay workouts where one person would run hard on the outside loop, while the other person jogged the inside loop, then switch for the next lap.
Ah, the good old days ... :o) ...
kent wrote:
I used to run with the RunTex group at one in Austin, I think it's the same one. Looks like they've done some construction in that area since 1996 and taken the upper end out and replaced it with a building. There used to be a full loop of the outside (left) part which totaled about 600 meters. You can't tell from the photo, but if it's the same one, the stretch from the tennis court to the bottom part of the track has a huge downhill in it. Probably drops 20-30 feet in less than 50 meters. We'd do two-person team relay workouts where one person would run hard on the outside loop, while the other person jogged the inside loop, then switch for the next lap.
Ah, the good old days ... :o) ...
That track is also BANKED on the sharp turn corner. The dorm to the north (San Jacinto) forced them to reshape it. It's still 400m if you run on the inside.
Also, it isn't totally flat... there's a small incline.