Smallest loop you've run

I used to do loop around a lot of the malls in the western suburbs of Chicago. And used to know the approximate distance around 3-4 that I ran regularly. The shortest loop was approximately .67 miles.

There's this mondo surface I do my workouts on thats only a 400m loop...

I was coaching a high school cross country team and I couldn't go away from the hotel so I ran around the outside of thehotel- the parking lot basically, for 6 miles. The loop was probably not much more than 1/4 mile.

One of my fitness centers had a little loop in it. I mean little. Maybe 20 feet around. No one really ran on it except this one japanese lady who looked pretty weird running around on it. I can't remember his name - maybe Oh - but a great japanese marathoner used to train on a really small loop.

Ran 13 miles running back and forth in my basement in a major snow storm. No regrets

Not a training run, but I've run on the Hart House track at the University of Toronto. It was a 2 mile race and I think it was 11 1/2 laps to the mile. Otherwise, I think the Cobo Hall indoor track was the more traditional 11 laps to a mile on which I've raced many times.

A lot of small loops in gyms. Usually 10-15 laps per mile.

Alan

I've done entire runs in the outside lane of an indoor track, so my shortest loop would be a little over 200m I guess.

There is a park near my house with a 176 yard walking trail, when my kids were younger, I'd take them to the park and knock out a few miles while they played.

I live on a farm in the country. Meth heads everywhere. There are times I run around the loop of my driveway for 3-5 miles at night. Loop is .06 mi and about 8’ of elevation.

I was going to put something similar to this.

Part of my basement has indoor/outdoor carpeting and that is the workout area with weights and all of that. There was a storm with 40 mph winds and I was not going to try to run. I started running back & forth with the intent that I would do it until I was bored. It didn’t take long to get bored. After 6 minutes I stopped and did some rowing. I ten made a circuit and repeated in 6 times - 4 minutes of running, 4 minutes of rowing, 1 minute of jump rope, a set of bench press, one minute of hitting the heavy bag. I couldn’t imagine 13 miles of back & forth.

Years ago I briefly lived in an apartment building with hallways outside the apartments. It was about 30 yards down the hallway. I ran back and forth 10 times. I lived on the 3rd floor and at the end of every 5th time of back and forth, I went up and down the stairs. I did that for an hour and had a few people open their apartment doors to see what was going on.

Whoa, 0.06 mile is tiny. That's about 97 metres all around? So approx 17 laps to a mile and 85 laps for your 5 mile run! Although Sally Vix's 20 foot loop is winning so far.

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200m on the "track" on top deck of cruise ship.

I was a NYC Subway Train Operator. Big snowstorm back in 2015 or so.

I was told to disembark all passengers at 59th St in Brooklyn and then take the train to Coney Island Stillwell Terminal. Left 59th St, didn't even make it to the next station, about 5 or 6 trains ahead of me and my conductor. Snow piling up, iced over rails. Sat in the train for about twenty hours.

Worried about getting my run in, so did laps inside one of the subway cars. I think I figured it as about 50' to one end of the car, then back. So 100' per "lap".

Did about 60 "laps" to be sure.

I just want to thank everyone in this thread for making me feel less neurotic about my running.

Whew, there have been some crazy ones. QEII ship deck at night in the dark (cold), so it was not an obstacle course avoiding other passengers - did this night after night, back and forth perhaps as much as 8 or 10 miles on some nights? (It was many years ago). Columbia, when I was there to teach and perform music: they would not let me run outside of their gated compound as they said I'd be in danger of being kidnapped by a motorcycle gang, so I ran seemingly endless laps up and down their little road. Hotel parking lots when on music tours... etc...!

I thought I'd done some crazy ones, but your 20 hours sitting in a subway, and running back and forth in a subway car puts me to shame. Presumably no water or access to toilets?! Ow!

Western Michigan University, Oakland Gym had a track that was on the second floor, looping around basketball courts on the lower level. It was less than 200 meters. A local runner named Dan Black ran a marathon on it.