Best indoor tracks in the US?

I ran pretty fast on Slippery Rock's indoor parking lot.

tm wrote:

having run on each of these, here's my list

1. bu

2. psu

3. armory

4. yale

5. reggie lewis

I have never actually ran at Penn State is it really nice? I didn't expect anyone to put it above the armory.

Springfield College (Mass.) D III also has the new surface, not banked, but same surface as Beijing

o you will hear the crowd at A&M

I love how the insecure div III runners always try to fall back on the state of education at a div I school. Yeah, Princeton, Harvard, Cal, Michigan, Texas, North Carolina, Duke, Virginia, Georgetown etc. are all schools that suck academically.

Do you get the point? They are not all shitty schools like Iona, NAU and Mississippi State.

The best indoor facility belongs to Northern Arizona University

7000ft

300 M.

Mondo

Idaho State also has a very unique one at Holt Arena

200 M

wood surface

Home of the Simplot Games

well you guys should check out the PG sportsplex they resurface the track with mondo and it is now a really fast track. Also Baldwin Wallace College outdoor track should be blazing since they just installed the surface that was used at bejing, I believe its the only one like it in the US, so don't be hating on dIII schools because some can put together great facilities. I don't go to BW but I just visited their track while I was up in cleveland for a business trip. Its unbelievable.

The best indoor facility is Northern Arizona? Are you kidding me? I don't think so. I have run there. First of all it is at 7,000ft. Second it is dirty and dusty, dry air. When it was first built around 2000 or so I would say the track was in better condition. The surface seems nice but starting to get torn up.

There are MUCH better and cleaner facilities than NAU. Open your eyes a little.

Smoky wrote: First of all it is at 7,000ft. Second it is dirty and dusty, dry air.

Well that depends on whether you run distance or sprints. 7000 feet is good for sprints.

i feel terrible for you guys. the winter is the hiatus for t/f here in so cal. we still workout in the winter often though, outside in the sun, at the beach, through the park...

The University of Alaska and Anchorage as a 400m indoor track. No big meets have been run there yet that i know of

VT has a great track... Just not much seating...

Navy's new track is up an running. Very similar to Penn State/Nebraska/Tx A&M.

Never thought much of Reggie.

Armory has lost some bounce with all of the abuse it receives regularly.

BU is uber fast. Super bouncy & energy efficient.

Harvard is showing it's age but is still very fast from 400-mile.

PSU is a fair track for all running events. The straight sprinters/hurdlers get Mondo over concrete while the oval events get fast banks of the curves and hollow/bouncy straights. (Now if Beth weren't such a...).

300m tracks don't do much for me (but Akron is very nice).

Arkansas is simply a great overall facility. They designed it with big meets in mind and didn't miss a detail. If more people ran on it (if it weren't in Arkansas) I am sure it would top everyone's lists.

The old yale tune track was amazing. Also, wasn't Johnson city TN the site of that great oversized track that gave us so many unofficial WR's?

Gladstein!!!!!!!!

And we get to hangout there again starting January 10th!!!!!!....

Only thing that makes the winter warmer

Here are my preferences as a 3k/5k runner. I ran on all of these in the late 90's/early 00's:

Penn State

Reggie Lewis

Harvard (feels crowded though)

Kent State (300m but no bank)

Armory (not banked)

Boston University (when I ran on this in '97 it was the biggest piece of shit ever. The track would cave under your feet. Did they build a new one?)

Wisconsin (forget the track - the problem is the air- it's so dry, your lungs will never be the same.)

All the track facilities that people talk about are banked or oversized tracks. Who has the best flat 200?

Grand Valley State

Florida