Smallest loop you've run

My 75 year old father has decided he wants to get back into running but says it’s too cold out and the ground is too hard, so he measured out his basement and is working up to a mile.

I’ve shared all of your reactions already, but he seems fine with it…

Nicest thing I’ve heard all day. Good for him.

Ditto. And I can't find it anymore but I recall seeing an article in the past year about the guy who just got the over 90 or over 95 WR for 5,000 meters. I'm pretty sure it said he did most of his training in his basement.

Definitely a 200m indoor track but a few times I have had an unpleasant dream about doing many miles on a tiny, tiny loop. Open to creative interpretations...

this thread does remind me of a woman who would walk laps in the intersection outside my house. Just one crosswalk after another for a long time. I suspect it is the best lit place on the neighborhood and she felt safe there. Or she was sending secret messages to the Russians, I dunno.

When camping in the boundary waters, we stayed on an island that I could get a good .16 mile (about 250m) loop around

Ran 10 miles on a 400m track once. Also ran 16 miles on a 1 Mile loop as well

I chased my kid around a couch for about a mile once according to my Garmin.

guys taking 1 day off helps u more than it hurts u ...

Back in highschool on the wrestling team we would run laps around the wrestling gym. It was the size of half a basketball court. We would do a 30min run every practice.

I used to get the worst plantar fasciitis from running in wrestling shoes. Ugh

I run on Cruise ships all the time, I forgot about that. Oasis class ships on Royal Caribbean have a track on deck 7 all the way around the ship. It's damned nice actually. Because of Covid I haven't been on one since Feb 2020, but that will change next month with I'm back on Oasis of the Seas. I actually forget how far one lap is... the ship is 1100 feet long, so double that plus the with of the ship x2, which lets say is 100...so 2400 feet or about 730 meters per lap. It's not bad.

I want to further mention that as far as Royal Caribbean ships go, it is only Oasis class that have the full uninterrupted loop around the outside of the ship. All other classes have some rinky dink path on top deck that's full of beach chairs, and not worth running on.

I sometimes run on my 10-foot loop of treadmill belt.

Quarantine in a hotel room for 3 weeks. Averaged 10 miles a day. One day did 31. Not really running. More of a fast walk.

Lol at being precise enough to assume 228 meters instead of just saying 230. 😂 My smallest loop was a small park on a business trip which had some significant elevation gain/drop each loop. It was probably about 200m and I ran nine miles - looking at the elevation map on Strava afterwards was comical, and I shook my head at myself.

Many years ago, I did quite a few laps on the indoor track in Fresno (it's now dismantled). IIRC, it was at least 10 laps to the mile, so it was ~161m long at most.

I actually do quite a few of my long runs on tracks. Easy access to water (if needed), easier on the legs than the roads, rarely have to deal with unleashed dogs, and no worries about getting back to the car if I somehow get injured halfway through and need to cut the run short.