Buffalo, NY - arguably one of the wintriest cities in the US - is finally getting a real indoor track (open in 2027... presumably late 2027). Not the 150m multipurpose surface track at Lancaster HS, not the 160m track at Buffalo State, not the 200m hardwood track at UB Alumni arena... a real indoor track: 200m and banked per the article. And it's being built by a group that isn't affiliated with a school, interestingly enough. About gd time!
Buffalo, NY finally gets a real indoor track - coming in 2027
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Hat tip to the Fredonia and Houghton tracks. RIP
It amazes me that the Rochester, NY area has (unbanked, 200m) indoor tracks at Brockport, R.I.T., and Nazareth while Buffalo has none within an hour.
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Will that make it worth relocating to Buffalo?
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Does Syracuse University still have a competition indoor track, or did it do away with the two they once had?
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Josh Allen's 400m PR wrote:
Hat tip to the Fredonia and Houghton tracks. RIP
It amazes me that the Rochester, NY area has (unbanked, 200m) indoor tracks at Brockport, R.I.T., and Nazareth while Buffalo has none within an hour.
Houghton has a great 8 lane, 200 meter track. not banked, but pretty fast for what it is. Largely financed by the Pegula family.
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Sounds like another one of those for-profit youth sports factories that are popping up everywhere. Which I'm all for if it means more indoor tracks.
Hard to read but it looks like the plan says "permanent banked track"... that's pretty rare for one of these places, usually they want a hydraulic track so they can have a flat playing surface for other sports. I doubt it will be a bouncy all-wood structure like BU but one can always hope.
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high school xc coach wrote:
Josh Allen's 400m PR wrote:
Hat tip to the Fredonia and Houghton tracks. RIP
It amazes me that the Rochester, NY area has (unbanked, 200m) indoor tracks at Brockport, R.I.T., and Nazareth while Buffalo has none within an hour.
Houghton has a great 8 lane, 200 meter track. not banked, but pretty fast for what it is. Largely financed by the Pegula family.
It does, and it's as great as every other track in the middle of nowhere.
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lake effect snow wrote:
Does Syracuse University still have a competition indoor track, or did it do away with the two they once had?
SU's Manley Field House is 220 yd flat, I believe
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JP Losman\'s TJ PR wrote:
lake effect snow wrote:
Does Syracuse University still have a competition indoor track, or did it do away with the two they once had?
SU's Manley Field House is 220 yd flat, I believe
Google confirms this but says it's only 3 lanes, so not a competition track
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JP Losman's TJ PR wrote:
high school xc coach wrote:
Houghton has a great 8 lane, 200 meter track. not banked, but pretty fast for what it is. Largely financed by the Pegula family.
It does, and it's as great as every other track in the middle of nowhere.
i'm not sure what you mean by this exactly... upper midwest has excellent facilities. Iowa State, U of North Dakota, and South Dakota State all have very good 300m indoor tracks despite all being in the middle of nowhere. Mankato's is 200m is very good. UWL has a brand new facility. Many other of the D2 and MIAC schools have more than adequate 200m.
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formeralbanian wrote:
Will that make it worth relocating to Buffalo?
NO !! 0° this morning. 6 months of darkness and gloom.
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screen name stolen wrote:
formeralbanian wrote:
Will that make it worth relocating to Buffalo?
NO !! 0° this morning. 6 months of darkness and gloom.
Also everyone here is racist, local running community sucks mostly a bunch of 35-45 year olds cheating on their spouses with runner friends, abusive police officers beatingand kidnapping people, massive city budget deficit, potholes and vacant buildings everywhere, crime, vehicle accidents, pedestrians/cyclists hit by cars etc. Worst place to live in the world.
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JP Losman's TJ PR wrote:
It does, and it's as great as every other track in the middle of nowhere.
i'm not sure what you mean by this exactly... upper midwest has excellent facilities. Iowa State, U of North Dakota, and South Dakota State all have very good 300m indoor tracks despite all being in the middle of nowhere. Mankato's is 200m is very good. UWL has a brand new facility. Many other of the D2 and MIAC schools have more than adequate 200m.
I'm sure those are great facilities and I'm jealous that they have them. Remind me... what do they have to do with the topic of this thread? NW Pennsylvania, eastern OH, southern Ontario, Rochester, Ithaca, and other central NY towns all have excellent indoor track facilities too but they similarly don't do much for Buffalo. Houghton's indoor track is *way* better than nothing and it's great - but it's not an indoor track in Buffalo.
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JP Losman's TJ PR wrote:
I'm sure those are great facilities and I'm jealous that they have them. Remind me... what do they have to do with the topic of this thread? NW Pennsylvania, eastern OH, southern Ontario, Rochester, Ithaca, and other central NY towns all have excellent indoor track facilities too but they similarly don't do much for Buffalo. Houghton's indoor track is *way* better than nothing and it's great - but it's not an indoor track in Buffalo.
you are the one saying the indoor facility is buffalo is as great as every other one in middle of nowhere but seems like you are now saying the opposite??
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it's wild how many facilities are in Rochester, while Buffalo has ZERO. . What a shame that a school the size of UB doesn't have one.
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Shout out if you remember racing in the National Guard Armory in Buffalo (circa 1970-75). Hacking fumes and soot from your lungs for the next 3 days. Ahh the good old days. Go Sabres!
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0° Again hasn't been above freezing in a month. Road's are slippery black ice everywhere. Will have about 7 hours of daylight with no sun again. That's why you learn to like the treadmill.
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Josh Allen's 400m PR wrote:
Buffalo, NY - arguably one of the wintriest cities in the US - is finally getting a real indoor track (open in 2027... presumably late 2027). Not the 150m multipurpose surface track at Lancaster HS, not the 160m track at Buffalo State, not the 200m hardwood track at UB Alumni arena... a real indoor track: 200m and banked per the article. And it's being built by a group that isn't affiliated with a school, interestingly enough. About gd time!
200m hardwood "track" at UB Alumni Arena?
if it's what I remember, it wasn't even 200m, didn't have fully rounded turns, and was only distinguished from the rest of the floor by tape...basically just a part of the basketball floor that they decided to pretend was a "track"we also used to do laps on the awkward, carpeted platforms raised above it...
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The 200m track at Manley has been gone since 2010, when they turned it into a turf training facility. Now there is a 3 lane jogging track around the perimeter, but it no longer hosts meets.
In 2011, an indoor facility opened on the campus of Onondaga Community college in Syracuse (SRC Arena), which now hosts all HS meets.
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