Not the same design as BU. The New Balance track does have plywood under the track surface but the frame is steel or aluminum - you can't have a springy wooden frame with hydraulics. Construction pics:
I believe there are one or two companies that build these hydraulically banked tracks and they all have essentially the same design. I don't believe there's any running benefit to the hydraulics as they're required to keep the banking fixed throughout the meet - I think it's more so they can have a flat floor to use the facility for other events.
Should be a great meet though, I see Kincaid is in the 3k.
So does wood on hydraulics do anything? What's the point of the wood?
If this track is super fast New Balance should do a better job in explaining the wood.
But I'm very excited about this facility. We've been saying New Balance should have an annual event around the Boston Marathon like they did last year. If this track is pretty fast we're seeing that athletes can run pretty much as fast indoors as outdoors in the distances.
Here is a short video explaining/showing what we will all be watching tomorrow on television:
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Not the same design as BU. The New Balance track does have plywood under the track surface but the frame is steel or aluminum - you can't have a springy wooden frame with hydraulics. Construction pics:
I believe there are one or two companies that build these hydraulically banked tracks and they all have essentially the same design. I don't believe there's any running benefit to the hydraulics as they're required to keep the banking fixed throughout the meet - I think it's more so they can have a flat floor to use the facility for other events.
Should be a great meet though, I see Kincaid is in the 3k.
Correct. Also anecdotally haven’t heard it’s much faster than the Reggie Lewis center from people that have raced it, but the air is better
My daughter raced there last week. The high quality of the air was the number one thing she noticed.
Have run on BU track many times over the years. Ran at NB two weeks ago and there is no comparison. BU is faster, the bounce and energy return of that track is second to none. It is a trampoline combined with curves you can accelerate coming out of big time. It has no peer or don’t people realize that by now with all the records set there over the years, including last week. My times for the 800 a week apart were two seconds faster at BU. NB has little give and the banks are not asymmetrical, hence, slower in two significant ways than BU. More like Ocean Breeze most likely. It’s a clean and airy facility, very nice to run and watch a meet in. Have watched a number of collegiate and high school meets there as well, there are meets every day of the week there now, and times are not any faster than at tracks such as Reggie or Harvard.
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The “Hello Mom I Won” phone hand gesture is totally meaningless to kids these days - they dont get it and when I showed them the guys who are doing it, they were like “WTF?^*%#?” - What does that even mean and why is he doing that with his hand? Explaining to them what rotary phones were is meaningless to them. Please move on……….
Have run on BU track many times over the years. Ran at NB two weeks ago and there is no comparison. BU is faster, the bounce and energy return of that track is second to none. It is a trampoline combined with curves you can accelerate coming out of big time. It has no peer or don’t people realize that by now with all the records set there over the years, including last week. My times for the 800 a week apart were two seconds faster at BU. NB has little give and the banks are not asymmetrical, hence, slower in two significant ways than BU. More like Ocean Breeze most likely. It’s a clean and airy facility, very nice to run and watch a meet in. Have watched a number of collegiate and high school meets there as well, there are meets every day of the week there now, and times are not any faster than at tracks such as Reggie or Harvard.
Any insight when BU resurfaces their track? Lanes 1 and 2 are looking way faded on TV.
That I don’t know. Lane one is shedding for sure. That said it could wear completely and it wouldn’t affect the essential ingredients that make the track fast. I like to think of it as an old, comfortable shoe, lived in, the best you’ve ever worn.
My first trip to the amazing new NB venue. This is an East Coast Indoor version of Track Town in the best ways. No offense to the great meets at BU facility, but with 5000 or so attendees and incredible hydraulic track, and s...
Boston did itself proud by filling the stadium despite the frigid weather conditions.
Facility looked fantastic on television.
US now has the new Hayward Field and NB's The Track . . . arguably the world's newest and best outdoor and indoor t&f facilities.
Very much looking forward to the 2024 NCAA indoor champs where all the fields will be high quality and we'll be able to get a better perspective on the "world's fastest indoor track" proclamation.
Maybe the plywood does provide an extra bounce . . . or maybe super fast times will be due to the latest/greatest track surface + 5,000 fans screaming at the runners to go faster
Do you really think that 5,000 fans will show up for an indoor track meet? I have my doubts.
