Joan Baez? You must be about 70.
Joan Baez? You must be about 70.
Records are kept for 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 2000m, 3000m, 5000m, 10000m, 15000m, 20000m, 25000m, and 30000m. All divisible by 500m. Therefore all races were an even number of laps, on 500m tracks.
Now, with 400m tracks all events, except for 500m, are either an even number of laps, or have an additional 1/2 lap, or 200m. Initially US tracks were 402.46m(440 yards), as that was 1 mile divided evenly by 4. One mile equals 1760 yards. As US tracks are rebuilt, they are being switched to 400m, but there are still 440 yard tracks in the US.
fwiw, The Dome, the covered indoor track in Anchorage, Alaska, has what I believe is a full-size soccer field inside of it. The result is that lane 1 of the six-lane track is 411m long.
Having an indoor track about a mile away from my house is, imho, pretty awesome. Having it be 2.75% long, not so much. All the splits are just off.
I was curious about the track in the Dome.
They have this on their website:
"400-meter USA Track & Field certified track"
fyi- there is no such thing as a USA Track and Field Certified Track. USATF does not certify tracks. The only sports body that does is World Athletics (IAAF).
D.Katz wrote:
I was curious about the track in the Dome.
They have this on their website:
"400-meter USA Track & Field certified track"
fyi- there is no such thing as a USA Track and Field Certified Track. USATF does not certify tracks. The only sports body that does is World Athletics (IAAF).
LOL. There's also no such thing as a 400m track inside The Dome.
I've heard the figure of 411m for lane 1 from multiple people, so that's what I quoted above. I can't 100% promise or confirm that that's right. But I do know that if you take a look at this diagram of various track markings:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120813074349/http://thealaskadome.com/PDFs/TrackMarkings.pdfthen there's no way that lane 1 can be 400m. The fact that a mile is (I'm guesstimating here) about 3.9 laps, and a 1600m 3.89 laps, is a pretty strong tipoff that the length is >400.
... although to be a total pedant here for a second, the line I see on the website is "Use The Dome’s official USA Track & Field 400-meter track . . . ."
Your point is not incorrect, but if that's what you're looking at, it doesn't actually say certified. Just saying. (If we're looking at different pages on the site, then please ignore this.)
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As I was searching for information about the dome I found this:
Now that I am looking at this in more detail, it's not on the Dome website but the information is still incorrect then.
If the track was 411m, the start line for the 10k would be (10km-(24*411m)) or 136m from the finish line. It looks to be about 65m from the finish line, making the track (10km-65m)/24 or 413.958m.
A rough 3 7/8 laps per 1600m estimate yields 412.903m per lap. I think the estimate from the 10k is the one to go with.
Soccer fields can range from 90 - 120 meters long and 45 - 90 meters wide. There is no set pitch dimension.
tail wind master wrote:
5k runnerr wrote:
you do realise that a track that long and straight would take up a great deal of space, right? plus it's mentally more difficult to run that way
Find a location and start a go fund me page and promote it here.
I actually think we can raise the money. I’m good for $200
A straight track actually takes up the minimum area.
G. Washington, avid land surveyor wrote:
If the track was 411m, the start line for the 10k would be (10km-(24*411m)) or 136m from the finish line. It looks to be about 65m from the finish line, making the track (10km-65m)/24 or 413.958m.
A rough 3 7/8 laps per 1600m estimate yields 412.903m per lap. I think the estimate from the 10k is the one to go with.
Damn. I am torn between sincere appreciation for your pointing this out, and feeling sort of sheepish that I've logged hundreds of miles on this track this year, and I'd never thought about working out the math like this. But let's stick with the former, since I do appreciate it. Many thanks.
(In my small defense, when I do a repeat for which precise lengths matter, I of course line up at the appropriate starting line for 2/4/8, so the actual interval is accurate. And I do all my warmups and cooldowns in lane 4, so I can go as slow as feels comfortable and not worry about pace. (So I just logged 9:30 for four laps in lane 4... is that roughly an 8:30 pace? Probably. Does it actually matter for my cooldown? No.))
Anyway, thanks again.
I'm 26, but 70 in spirit.
Thank you all for your information and opinions, they've been very helpful.
Les wrote:
At one time, tracks were 500m.
Pics?
My father ran on a 1/2 mile horse track.