There are at least 50 joggers on the track

You actually have access to a public track?!

Consider yourself lucky.

lolololololololol wrote:

You actually have access to a public track?!

Consider yourself lucky.

The ones that are locked up force more crowding on the few that are open. Brilliant "strategy" by local officials, though not as clever as injecting covid-positive patients into nursing homes (which become death-management centers).

YMMV wrote:

lolololololololol wrote:

You actually have access to a public track?!

Consider yourself lucky.

The ones that are locked up force more crowding on the few that are open. Brilliant "strategy" by local officials, though not as clever as injecting covid-positive patients into nursing homes (which become death-management centers).

Most government officials failed in life. It's true.

All kinds of workouts happening on my track. One guy did a one-lap warm up and then headed to the infield to do 10 x a cartwheel on short rest. He finished with a one-lap cool down. It seemed weird to me, but he probably wondered why I was running all these laps without stopping to do cartwheels.

fvckin' a, clear them joggers real quick

If jamin is the fastest of his neighboorhood he should challenge the others pedestrians to a race and claim ownership of the track.

Go at 4 am; rarely if ever see anyone else on the track, the sidewalk, etc. Use a good flashlight, though. It's a lot cooler, too.

Using a public track is a crapshoot. I try to go at 6:30 a.m. when I can, which at least weeds out the least serious people.

A couple weeks ago I was at the track during the day, and made permanent enemies of a woman and the girls that were with her. The girls were riding their bikes on the track, which is not allowed, although the sign saying so has fallen down. I said to the woman, "Bikes aren't allowed on the track. This is an expensive synthetic track and it's not good for the track surface."

The woman said, "Whatever," looked at me scornfully, and the kids removed their bikes from the track. They all clearly regarded me as the villain, although I was the only person using the track properly.

Brittle Master 1958 wrote:

The woman said, "Whatever," looked at me scornfully, and the kids removed their bikes from the track. They all clearly regarded me as the villain, although I was the only person using the track properly.

This is actually a great example of why the U.S. is so screwed up. People who know what they are talking about get no respect, people are scornful of rules established for the public good, and there is little civility in public discourse.

I'll show you! I'm coming back with a moped next time.

I'm actually very impressed with some of the people who defiled my public track (before the 'rona). There would often be 2 or 3 large, loud women who could somehow take up 6 lanes and appear to be moving forward, but at a speed so slow that I could not replicate it. Seriously, I would try to stop in front of them and 'cool down' by shuffling as slooooow as possible, but they would never catch up. Judging by the incredible projection of their voices, I suppose they were just exercising their first amendment rights?

what percentage of the people were wearing masks?

First track workout in ages for me tonight, it was great fun.

If you want to see a crowded track, go to Yoyoji Park in Tokyo, must have been 300 people training on it when I was there. All serious runners in the main part, but it was carnage. One of the most fun evenings I’ve ever had.

BTW, if you ever are there, train with Namban Rengo, those guys are great (if not that fast) and drink loads of beers after.

Sounds eerily like the only public track (all-weather asphalt) in a 20-mile radius here. All other tracks around here are razor-wired up and gated except one middle school that keeps the gate open, and I got permission from that school's administration to run on that track at the start of last school year (pre-pandemic). Police came by on a random night a few months into the pandemic, kicked the one other runner and me off the track and a dad and his two 7-and-under kids off the baseball field. said it doesn't matter what permission we have, it's all closed (as he tried to find a lock for the wide-open gate, but didn't succeed). So I tried to drive out another 20 minutes to that one public track, and it was a big nope -- there were parents with strollers veering between lanes 1-3 going the wrong way, people shoulder-to-shoulder in inner lanes going the right way, a few on bikes pretending to be Strava legends, no masks or social distancing, about 50 people on the track, a full-on football pick-up game in the infield, and several fitness groups doing yoga and cross-fit outside the stadium area. Typically have to go at 5:30am or 10pm to have any sort of minimal interaction, which is what I wanted with the open-gate track that I had permission to run on, but technically that's outside of the 'open hours,' so I'm always wary if I get there at those hours. I don't understand why you'd want to corral people onto one track and put them all at risk instead of let them mind their own business on a track they have permission to run on away from the crowds. Last time I got to the public track at 7am, there were 5-on-5 basketball games going on each half-court with parents standing and crowding the sidelines, and there was a full-on club track team with about 30 people running in lanes 1-4. Considering other more track-friendly areas that don't force concert-style crowds on a single rudimentary asphalt track in a region when the pandemic settles down if you all have recommendations.

Americans are really great at social distancing. I wish we could be as good as the social distancing stars in the US.

it always amazes me why people would choose to walk/jog around a track when they're not doing a track workout that benefits from exact intervals and a fast surface. Why not go somewhere more exciting than a quarter mile circle?

At our local track yesterday there were two abandoned skateboards in the middle of lanes 3-4. Who did they belong to? The family with the unleashed dog running back and forth on the track? They guy in lane 1 who was wearing some kind of combination stilts/pogo-stick? The soccer players on the field next to the sign that read “no ball games - police take notice”?

I guess I’ll never know.

I feel like culturally, I would much prefer working out on a track of 80 Japanese citizens to 50 American citizens.

Here in NYC, the tracks don't even clear out that hard after the sun goes down, but the key difference why I work out late at night is that there are no kids on bikes and scooters going the wrong direction. I can deal with people on the track if they are on their feet and going in the correct direction.

It amaze me all these people who travel to a local public track just to walk around.

Why don't they do it on the street? They don't know that a track is for running? Joggers are at least running somehow.