Why drive 45 minutes to a track purchase a wheel and measure your own course do you do this

I do workouts on the road due to not having access to a track. I'm more of a marathoner so I don't have to worry about 400s and what not. However, a week or two ago I found a soccer complex that isn't getting much use right now without fencing between the fields. I've started using that for some workouts. It also has a mile and a halfish dirt path in addition to the fields, which is nice.

Kvothe wrote:

I do workouts on the road due to not having access to a track. I'm more of a marathoner so I don't have to worry about 400s and what not. However, a week or two ago I found a soccer complex that isn't getting much use right now without fencing between the fields. I've started using that for some workouts. It also has a mile and a halfish dirt path in addition to the fields, which is nice.

Exactly, l love having a wheel. I can make my own course. Like today l did 1ks and l know were every 100 is. Why drive 45 minutes in traffic and deal with people in lane one or whatever, when l can get a much better workout in right outside my door.

move closer to an open track

flvmmox wrote:

move closer to an open track

Yeah, up root my family to run at a public track, when my wheel is better; ok, not.

Driving 45 minutes may be overkill for some.....as would purchasing a wheel and measuring it out on the road. Personally I would just program it into my watch. If your watch is 1% out, it's not like your workout was worthless.

Some would happily drive 90 round trip to do a workout in a group.

You may want to spend your resources on spelling and grammar lessons.

track is to far away wrote:

I live 45 minutes away from the nearest open track, unless l want to jump the fence at a high school 20 minutes away and get in trouble. I find it much easier to go to Lows and purchase a wheel, and mark off workouts on the road, infact it's better since l race on the road, not the track. So if l have to do, for instance a session of 12x 400, l just measure 400 meters out, with every 100 marked. Anyone else do this. It's crazy to drive 45 minutes to a track in traffic, if I can just wheel out a course myself on a surface of my choice.

I haven't done this, but it makes sense. I know some approximate distances based on looking at GPS distance on numerous runs. I have a great loop that measures ~0.83 mi. for intrevals, and I know the approximate distances between many landmarks (mail boxes) on the loop. That's close enough for my purposes. No need to buy a wheel. I use this loop if my go-to track turns out to be occupied unexpectedly.

I doubt many people live that far from a track though. In a 15 minute warm-up running radius, I have 5 tracks that I could go to. In a 20 minute driving radius, there are more than 15 tracks that I could go to. If you extend the radius to 45 minutes driving, there would be dozens of tracks that you could choose from. I live in a somewhat rural area with some suburb-like areas.

DiffrntPerspective wrote:

You may want to spend your resources on spelling and grammar lessons.

Just a question. Are you that guy that everyone picks on at work? You really have no life trolling the Let's Run.Com boards looking for spelling mistakes.

track is to far away wrote:

I live 45 minutes away from the nearest open track, unless l want to jump the fence at a high school 20 minutes away and get in trouble. I find it much easier to go to Lows and purchase a wheel, and mark off workouts on the road, infact it's better since l race on the road, not the track. So if l have to do, for instance a session of 12x 400, l just measure 400 meters out, with every 100 marked. Anyone else do this. It's crazy to drive 45 minutes to a track in traffic, if I can just wheel out a course myself on a surface of my choice.

Save your money and just do 12 x 60/75/90 seconds.

Why live 45 minutes from an open track?

I hear tell they got some fancy watches now that use something called GIPS or GAPS or GSP, whatever. Point is that is ya' git one of these super watches and it tells you how far you done run. It uses some kind of military or NASA stuff in space to do it and it is more than accurate enough for hobby joggers. Heck, a buddy told me them watches can even log your miles so you don't gotta get no notebook and pencil. It even shows all your kin how much and how fast you go on sumpthin' called Strap On. Will miracles never cease?

You can't tell how long 400 meters is?

Treacle Runner wrote:

Driving 45 minutes may be overkill for some.....as would purchasing a wheel and measuring it out on the road. Personally I would just program it into my watch. If your watch is 1% out, it's not like your workout was worthless.

Some would happily drive 90 round trip to do a workout in a group.

Years ago I measured multiple runs using a bike with a wheel-mounted distance measuring device. I marked every 500 meters. The small markings I made were with yellow pavement paint which holds up well for more than a year. I have repainted them twice. I know where the small marking are so timing to that point is as easy as hitting your watch to stop on a track.

I bought a Jones Counter years ago because I thought I wanted to do some course certifications. I ended up just 'certifying' my own personal courses. Over the years I've let them all go except for the one where I do my long interval workouts. It's a very deserted and mostly unused section of bike path that is almost exactly 2 miles long. Probably 15 years ago I took the Jones counter and measured off 3200m of that bikepath. Largish double arrows at each 400m mark and then small hash marks every 100m. So I've got 3200m marked off every 100m. I typically do stuff like 6X1600 with 200jog recovery (the 100m hash marks come in handy there), or even 3X3200 with 400 jog recovery. The other day I ran 5X1000 with 400 jog recovery. Everything in metric is easy on this course. I repaint it every 3 years maybe.

I did the wheel thing for awhile, then I got a GPS and found out it was close enough work for me. You get slight variations with the wheel too.

Now a wheel is real nice for trails with switchbacks or a lot of tree cover, but most people just do fartlek on a trail.

Since you see some running tracks around football fields, you could use the wheel to improvise an oval track, too.

Banned in 60 Seconds wrote:

I hear tell they got some fancy watches now that use something called GIPS or GAPS or GSP, whatever. Point is that is ya' git one of these super watches and it tells you how far you done run. It uses some kind of military or NASA stuff in space to do it and it is more than accurate enough for hobby joggers. Heck, a buddy told me them watches can even log your miles so you don't gotta get no notebook and pencil. It even shows all your kin how much and how fast you go on sumpthin' called Strap On. Will miracles never cease?

Trying to hide your lack of intelligence and command of your own first language by intentionally writing poorly does not work.

A track is softer so beats up your body less. No worries about cars hitting you. It also is a good place to bring other runners to push the pace. It is lame we pay tax dollars for tracks and public cannot use them. Contact your elected officials !

1600m506pr:-/ wrote:

track is to far away wrote:

I live 45 minutes away from the nearest open track, unless l want to jump the fence at a high school 20 minutes away and get in trouble. I find it much easier to go to Lows and purchase a wheel, and mark off workouts on the road, infact it's better since l race on the road, not the track. So if l have to do, for instance a session of 12x 400, l just measure 400 meters out, with every 100 marked. Anyone else do this. It's crazy to drive 45 minutes to a track in traffic, if I can just wheel out a course myself on a surface of my choice.

Save your money and just do 12 x 60/75/90 seconds.

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