dirt track... once a runner

Thank you for all your replies! I've expressed the ideas to some of my buddies on the track team who have been to my cabin before and they said they would he more than happy to come up for a long weekend and help me out. I have a metric measuring wheel courtesy of one of my coaches, and I believe I have enough tools at the cabildo scrape by doing It by hand. Only thing I don't have is the topography map, and the surveying flags but I can't imagine either of those would be terribly expensive. The only problem is thy where my cabin is located has about two feet of snow, so I will have to wait for spring or possibly the beginning of summer to steal away to the cabin.

Again. Thank you for all the replies

to keep you inspired until the snow melts:

the Lake Tahoe 1968 Olympic Trials track

http://sports.webshots.com/photo/1137475699033878944wizFhl

http://www.tahoeculture.com/events/south-shore-events/a-legendary-run-to-keep-historic-track-alive-june-19/

and a video of the 1968 1500m trials on the track

http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/2282110

p.s. survey flags are about $5 for 100.

topo maps are $5

If/When you get this done, please come back and let us know how it turned out. And pics would be nice.

Rodger Kram wrote:

and a video of the 1968 1500m trials on the track

http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/2282110

p.s. survey flags are about $5 for 100.

topo maps are $5

That video is awesome. I've known about that track for years, but didn't realize it had been redone.

To the OP, I'd say just use what nature has given you (unless you want to build the track in order to occupy yourself with something besides letsrun while you are there). The heavy drag might be a good idea.

If you want race pace work on a track, how far would you have to drive to get to a standarized, professionally built one?

I actually tried to recreate QC's grass track out on a 40 acre field in Newberry two summers ago.

My method (the best I could do with what I had): got a yard stick and 20 lil' orange flags from the local hardware store and just flipped the yardstick over and over and over, and every 20 yards I would stick one of the flags in the ground. It turned out to be a ridiculously shaped oval/circle/rectangle, but it got the job done in my opinion.

I intended to try 60 X 400 but decided I was not in good enough shape so never did it.