I was recently on vacation in Santa Cruz, Calif, and noticed an unusual looking track at one of their middle schools when I drove by. Here's an overhead view:
I was recently on vacation in Santa Cruz, Calif, and noticed an unusual looking track at one of their middle schools when I drove by. Here's an overhead view:
In August 2001 I had what was for me a superb workout on this track right near the base of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It was like I stepped back in time to my 20s and was "fast" again. Amazing what a 350m track will do for one's ego.
It has been mentioned how some old tracks have the 200m straight-away. Palmyra High School in New Jersey(located right outside Philly) has one and they still compete duals on it.
Usher wrote:
The old indoor track under the football bleachers at Carleton College.
I don't know how long it is to the mile, but it's a 3-lane track with straights that run pretty much the length of the bleachers and very steeply banked curves that are only about 10 meters long. The curves are banked like a bike track. Somewhere I read that the nickname for the track was the "paper clip".
I figured that it was a practice set-up for the long Minnesota winters, but a coaching friend of mine remembers running meets on that track.
That would be the Dungeon. We still run workouts on it sometimes, and it was used for indoor meets until we got a 200m track. I think I heard someone say the curves are banked at 37 degrees.
Some of these tracks actually seem like they'd be fun to run on for distance races. Like the 1.5 mile one that had lots of curves and up/downhills. Would mean every track race would have a different feel to it. Obviously, can't have things like world records and such since each track would be different, but treat it like motorsports and each track is its own thing, you just race for place. Kind of like XC, just with a track surface so it would be faster. Especially like a lot of the international XC meets where they run laps, imagine that but just with a real track surface.
Obviously expensive though since you would need a lot more of the surface to be laid down.
The track at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum is no more. That track represents the two greatest track meets in U.S. Track and Field history, the 1932 Summer Olympic Games, and the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. There have been no meets since which has had same impact on our sport worldwide since those two epic meets. I hope to see a new stadium built soon at Exposition Park so that we can have the a 3rd greatest track meet in the U.S.A. in Los Angeles again.
arwerredfgdf wrote:
I have seen an 800 meter track.
I ran on a half-mile track at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. I was later told it was long by something like 40 yards. Imagine that.
hey do you know the policy for the public using their indoor track? or is it easy to sneak in there? I'm just looking to do a couple workouts over break here in Rochester
New Track at Reading's Austin Prep to be asymmetrical?
Anyone have information about this rebuild?
thanks
http://www.tracktalk.net/new-track-t15934.html?p=492114#post492114This has always been a fun thread. Let's bump it.
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Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, GA across the street from a 400m, 8-lance track is a 6-lane something I will describe as an L-shaped track, complete with 4 starting lines (?) including a waterfall!
38°31'04"N 77°18'18"W
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USMC Marine Base, Quantico, VA still has a 220y(?) straight that can be seen above. Wacky is the markings are all screwed up... lanes are not uniform width and the exchange zones are off... something like 100, 110, 100, 90. Probably an old 440y track that was surfaced and marked without being properly measured
Coronado (CA) High School has a 6-lane track that was installed between two existing city streets. The outside lane is 380 meters or so. Look that one up yourself if you wish.
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linky no worky...
That weird 560m track in Zurich for the DL final in 2021. Horrible
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