Not completely square but definitely squarish, and there have been some fast (non-official) times run on this track.
Eagles wrote:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=american+university+washington+dc&sll=47.387037,-122.621171&sspn=0.881427,2.570801&ie=UTF8&ll=38.937548,-77.09129&spn=0.001978,0.005021&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr&om=1Not completely square but definitely squarish, and there have been some fast (non-official) times run on this track.
Not interesting.
duh........................... wrote:
Not interesting.
Well, it may not be as interesting as your insightful two-word post was, but it was interesting in its own way.
That track at American University looks like a lot of the European ones, with the wide, faster turns.
Track around the football(left side) baseball(right side) fields in Bessemer Michigan. Home of the Bessemer High School "Speedboys."
To the left of the track is a Steiger Field which is quoted directly from the field signage "The most scenic little league park in North America." It is beautiful in the summer over looking the rock outcropping of the Gogebic Range.
The track is also the home of the best 4th of July fireworks display anywhere I've ever seen. For a town of about 1,100 people they sure know how to throw a party.
Here's one at the (private) Haverford School, Haverford PA. It's a little oblong, and it has some good elevation changes, and a tree in one turn that it goes around. I think it's 4 lanes as I recall.
Travis Air Force base 1/3 of a mile
Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, VT. Home of the Vermont National Guard. This track is a 1 mile, 2 lane track. The dark line is the new track, the lighter line is the older dirt track.
Here's one in Chesterton IN that has a 200m (or maybe 220yd) straightaway. Ran the 200 in middle school on it in the late 80s and it was the longest race of my life....
And here is another square track in Hobart IN that I ran on in middle school as well:
JimG wrote:
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?
Jim,
I ran many 440's out of the chute at Boyle Stadium and a few 220 yd. straights at Ripp and Boyle. I also ran a few good 440's on the triangular track at Greenwich. I seem to recall a weird track at the old New Canaan HS as well. The original Ludlowe had a track that may have been 360 yds or so.
Of course back in the 60's there were many of us that felt that McMahon had the best track in the league. It was cinder, but we could wear spikes, unlike those new things at Darien where you had to tun in your Puma Clydes or your converse high tops.
Things haven't improved all that much....there are 8 schools in the state without a track and I've coached at three and am still without one.
Shelton (WA) HS had a triangular shaped track until 1973 (my senior year).
We also had two rectangular tracks in our league at that time, one about 340 yds long (Aberdeen HS), one 440 yd rubber asphalt (Hoquiam).
google maps 181 mercer street- its nyu's rooftop track on top of their athletics building- its really not a bad track for being in the middle of new york city- maybe better than the East 6th street track that has hills in the middle of it- fam talked about it in run like hell
regents park nr the centre of london.
Right across the water from SPU is the good old Ballard High School track. 500 meters, 5 turns, and a slew of right angles. Nothing like ending a fast interval getting run into a wall.
My Dad ran track at Fitchburg High in the late 50's. I went with him to visit his hometoen last year (we live in CA) and damned if the track isn't a triangle! He said it was just like that back in the day, but dirt, of course. I took a jog around it just to say I ran on the same funky track as Pops.
THE ORIGINAL POST IS MY HOME TRACK! I ran on it today! That is hilarious that someone pointed it out on here. It is a private school and the track is not normally open to the public but alot of neighborhood people jog around it from time to time. It was one of the first all weather tracks and they used to run small invitationals on it. We still run 80% of our league meets on it because there are only two schools in our league with all weather tracks. BTW, I hear that this track is the only track with three turns that is all weather west of the Mississippi river!
NYU has a track on the roof of its gym. I understand the teams don't actually train on it--wonder why?
Check out SLUH's track in St. Louis, right across from Forest Park.
Two tracks in the same spot in Northwest DC. One square, the other funky because of the street.