I love BU's track. Everytime I have run on it I have gotten a pr. It is by far the best indoor track I have run on.
I love BU's track. Everytime I have run on it I have gotten a pr. It is by far the best indoor track I have run on.
senator wrote:
I've run at BU, Iowa State, Nebraska, Reggie Lewis, and Harvard.
My fave is Nebraska for mid-sprints (my mid-sprint is the 800m).
ISU is a great facility. It has the 400m track 4 lanes on the level above the 300m competition surface. I always loved warm-up/cool-downs there because you could still catch a glimpse of the races below.
BU and Reggie are great for fast times. The Harvard track just doesn't seem to be in the same tier as those two other Boston tracks.
Thanks for the input!
navy is supposedly opening a new hydraulic-banked indoor track this year. anyone know if it's going to be ready for this season? i'm too lazy to go to their website.
Why are three of the best tracks in Boston? Is it some kind of track Mecca?
Kent state just re-did the track and facility. The track is made of the same surface that was used in the Beijing olympics and it's the only indoor track in the country right now that has it.
Don't get all excited about the Texas A&M track. It is nice but what is the definition of a fast track? I would say that it will be easier to run fast times at Washington than Texas A&M. one reason is that you have people screaming in your face the whole race. At Texas A&M the crowd is VERY far from the track. I would prefer Arkansas becasue the crowd is close. If you are a sprinter or field event competitor then A&M seems like the best place. If you are a distance runner then NO WAY! Iowa State, Washington and even Arkansas for distance. I would even prefer nebraska for distance runners because you can actually hear the crowd.
The greatest indoor track used to be Manley Field House in Syracuse. (Circa 1980!) 10 meter straightaways and those delicious oversized turns made for fast times no matter what the surface was made from; it could have been cinders and I wouldn't have cared.
http://psutafalumnigolf.blogspot.com/2008/11/remembering-manley-field-housesyracuse.html
actually thats not true, the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point just put the new mondo down too.
Don't get all excited about the Texas A&M track. It is nice but what is the definition of a fast track? I would say that it will be easier to run fast times at Washington than Texas A&M. one reason is that you have people screaming in your face the whole race. At Texas A&M the crowd is VERY far from the track. I would prefer Arkansas becasue the crowd is close. If you are a sprinter or field event competitor then A&M seems like the best place. If you are a distance runner then NO WAY! Iowa State, Washington and even Arkansas for distance. I would even prefer nebraska for distance runners because you can actually hear the crowd.
The greatest indoor track used to be Manley Field House in Syracuse. (Circa 1980!) 10 meter straightaways and those delicious oversized turns made for fast times no matter what the surface was made from; it could have been cinders and I wouldn't have cared.
http://psutafalumnigolf.blogspot.com/2008/11/remembering-manley-field-housesyracuse.html
Don't get all excited about the Texas A&M track. It is nice but what is the definition of a fast track? I would say that it will be easier to run fast times at Washington than Texas A&M. one reason is that you have people screaming in your face the whole race. At Texas A&M the crowd is VERY far from the track. I would prefer Arkansas becasue the crowd is close. If you are a sprinter or field event competitor then A&M seems like the best place. If you are a distance runner then NO WAY! Iowa State, Washington and even Arkansas for distance. I would even prefer nebraska for distance runners because you can actually hear the crowd.
The greatest indoor track used to be Manley Field House in Syracuse. (Circa 1980!) 10 meter straightaways and those delicious oversized turns made for fast times no matter what the surface was made from; it could have been cinders and I wouldn't have cared.
http://psutafalumnigolf.blogspot.com/2008/11/remembering-manley-field-housesyracuse.html
Don't get all excited about the Texas A&M track. It is nice but what is the definition of a fast track? I would say that it will be easier to run fast times at Washington than Texas A&M. one reason is that you have people screaming in your face the whole race. At Texas A&M the crowd is VERY far from the track. I would prefer Arkansas becasue the crowd is close. If you are a sprinter or field event competitor then A&M seems like the best place. If you are a distance runner then NO WAY! Iowa State, Washington and even Arkansas for distance. I would even prefer nebraska for distance runners because you can actually hear the crowd.
Wow, you're having the same trouble I am (4 times over!)
Manley (Syracuse) is a very nice facility indeed, but if we're going just off of the track itself, I'd say that Yale, Reggie Lewis, and the Armory are the best/my favorites. Especially Yale (my PR sanctuary!).
Kent State has the only Mondo Beijing indoor surface in the world.
300m.
2 LJ, TJ pits
8 lanes for the 60m, 60mh, or even 100m 110mh
Enough said
Crap, it din't work. Here is the link. You enter it.
www.tvaarchitects.com/flash.html
click on the track symbol then click on the different videos
I'm guessing you never ran at BU. Its amazing and its right near Reggie Lewis. You should give it a shot if you're still running competitively. Its called the sling shot for a reason. Yale is nice. But the banks are kind of high a narrow. The banks at Bu are much smoother.