What race would you get rid of?

Oh, I thought this thread was going to be about something else.

What's a mile?

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At first I thought the same thing. Back to the races.

20K racewalk.

Exactly. 1600 would make sense. 4.0234 laps (mile) makes decidedly less sense than 3.75 laps.

Some many of them, but I would get rid of the 10K

I always thought that the best distance was the league (approx 2,220m).

i don’t know why we never run that distance.

Logical progression of the distance in track would be: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 and 12800. So we should replace the 1500, 5000 and 10000 with the 1600, 6400 and 12800. Why double the next distance from 100-800 and than put of nowhere have the 5000 and 10000? It makes no sense.

I'm sure the bigoted legions that dominate this board will troll it that direction eventually.

Definitely the dog race. 🐕. Really cruel and inhumane treatment.

Amen.

If we are talking the best lineup of races for track, we should choose the distances before building the tracks. The tracks I ran most on in high school were actually 440-yard tracks, so the mile made more sense than the 1600m in that time in the US. Then you had races of 100yd, 220yd, 440yd, 880yd, mile, 2-mile, 3-mile, 6 mile.

Starting from a clean slate, and not considering cost, would we choose 400m tracks? Why not 500-meter tracks? Then we could have distances of 100m, 250m, 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 3000m, 5000m, and 10000m.

300m tracks: We could have 100m, 300m, 600m, 900m, 1500m, 3000m,

333-1/3m tracks: We could have 100m, 333-1/3m, 1000m, 2000m, 5000m, 10000m.

nah bro you knew what you were doing when you wrote that.

to answer your question, there are a lot of races I hate that I would like to see eradicated off this earth. One particular one does come to mind tho. I come from a traditional American family and so it is a matter of cultural importance that I say I hate the 1500m. We ought to race the mile instead. 

My idea is to replace all races with one super race, all runners line up, the gun goes off, first person across the 100m line wins the 100 first person across the 200 m line wins the 200 and so on all the way up to the marathon

1500 just to piss off the mile supremacists who bizarrely insist that its the most important event in track just because theyre racist and only care about distance events where white people are conpetitive.

Drag race. I'm not talking about trans gender in sports.

Hurdles

Never impressed me. Technique that someone can learn in a couple of years so that the hurdles don't even slow them down. So then you just have a B-heat of the 100 and 400 with slower guys who are chasing victory in a niche event (just like field events)

+1 for 500m tracks and the distances listed. That’s the best idea.

1.5km, 3km, 5km etc are distances that make sense to most people in the world. Almost no one gives a 💩 about your 3200m. Why do you keep running after the finish?