Potosi Bolivia, elevation 13,300 feet.
Potosi Bolivia, elevation 13,300 feet.
malmo wrote:
Potosi Bolivia, elevation 13,300 feet.
Image:
http://i27.tinypic.com/2qnxe15.jpg
Is that one surfaced or cinder?
dingle wrote:
Is that one surfaced or cinder?
I don't know.
Here's one at Puno, Peru, next to Beavis and Butthead's favorite vacation spot: Lake Titicaca. unh-uh-huh-unh...
Elevation 12,507 feet.
hfgruekd wrote:
La Paz, Bolivia is where many of the Mexican national team members go to train in the northern hemisphere winter and there is a track there at close to 12,000'. Potosi is higher though, and probably takes the cake unless there is a track above Kathmandu.
Ka-ka-ka-Kathmandu is less than 5000'.
There has been talk of putting in an all weather track at Shady Rest park in Mammoth Lakes, somewhere around 8500ft.
malmo wrote:
Potosi Bolivia, elevation 13,300 feet.
I wonder what it feels like doing a track workout at 13,000'?
Crested Butte, Colorado
they have a 300 meter cinder track at the school and it's 8500-9000 feet
Simon Bolivar wrote:
I wonder what it feels like doing a track workout at 13,000'?
Slow
Since I ran on it for four to six weeks back in 1986, I can tell you that it is a cinder track (or fine gravel/sand) and that it is very, very hard to run on a track at 13,000 feet. I got a tremendous headache the first day I flew in, after unwisely deciding to play hoops 1 on 4 at the local hs. This was salved by my host family's mate de coca. coca leaves in tea bags--contains a few grams of cocaine apparently, I noticed from a web look. But I would walk or jog down (cobblestones) to the track in the morning, run, gradually faster, and trudge back up to the plaza exhausted even though I'd only run, I think, two or three miles at a time. as i said, i could only manage a 6:13 mile at the end of my time there. Now, if you could maybe drive to the outskirts of town on the high end, avoiding the loose dogs, you could get some great running away from cerro rico. really nice paths, no people, only a few llama. and between potosi and la paz there are various villages at 15k or higher.
In Nepal, you could set up a track maybe at Annapurna basecamp, which is 14,400 ft, if memory serves, or everest basecamp, which is somewhere upwards of 18,000 feet. but in any case, there are great trails to run on in the annapurna circuit, reaching 17,700 feet. only hikers and porters carrying 130 lb packs to contend with.
The track at Western (football field) has a plaque that says the field is the highest elevation for an NCAA football field - 7,700 feet or so. And to confirm Crested Butte does have an asphalt track that is three lanes only for all but the front straight. Not sure if it is only 300 meters though....it circles a soccer field. I have never ran on it, but have passed it a few times visiting. Elevation 9,000 feet or so. I have never seen the track at Leadville - but I know they have one. They have a CC Invitational every fall. Anyone know the times or course record?
Some trivia about La Paz:
The first edition of the South American Games took place there in 1978. The results are posted here:
http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/sag.htm
Note the 33:28 winning time in the 10k
15:54 winning time in the 5k
The wikipedia page says that the games took place in three cities, so I don't know if the athletics took place there. The other option is Cochabamba which is at 8800 feet.
Sure seem like it would be the U of C Boulder track, after all the snooty comments and exaggerated claims we hear from Boulder people all the time.
Very cool video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpBLpuyDtaM&mode=related&search=
