2 reasons:
- budget cuts due to the economy
- random douchebaggery
2 reasons:
- budget cuts due to the economy
- random douchebaggery
thanks, but I guess I meant regulation-sized. this appears to be a 1/9th mile track?
LoL Will I just have to act like Im a student at the college I'm working out at?
Wesylnn?? 200m
The better question is why would you need one? Are you a nationally ranked sprinter with nowhere to train? Move south or out to California. Anybody else can suck it up and run outdoors. There have been more than a few nationally ranked distance runners out of this state who didn't step on an indoor track for training in the winter.
Why does indoor track even exist then?
What about Wilton, or Staples in Westport? Can't you get into those?
Plz tell me Im wrong wrote:
Why does indoor track even exist then?
Good question....I know the answer, but it is a very good question!!
doesn't Uconn still have that one in the field house? Not great, but better than nothing...many decent runners have found it suitable for their needs.
Ray L wrote:
The better question is why would you need one? Are you a nationally ranked sprinter with nowhere to train? Move south or out to California. Anybody else can suck it up and run outdoors. There have been more than a few nationally ranked distance runners out of this state who didn't step on an indoor track for training in the winter.
You may be right, but most groups have access to one either through NYC or MA. and yes, It isn't absolutely necessary - you can certainly toughen up and brave the cold and workout super-hard in very cold weather, innovate by marking the streets, etc, but it can be helpful.
Agreed
I know Joe Lemay used to do some speed work in the parking garage or in the lot at Danbury Mall. I have had several nationally ranked athletes that ran indoor but never stepped on a track for training. Hills and halves marked on the streets. 200m increments marked on long stretches of road etc. I still argue there shouldn't even be indoor track for distance runners but that's for another thread.
I've never run on an indoor track, and I've come within an hour of the Olympic Marathon QT.
aholian wrote:
I've never run on an indoor track, and I've come within an hour of the Olympic Marathon QT.
Maybe you would have got the standard if you have trained on an indoor track. jk
no more yale? at all?
Nope no more yale
They need to re-open Coxe Cage, there is such high demand for it.
hillhouse?
If you get a community card from UCONN, you will be able to run there during open hours. It's like 30+/month I think. Every year I coached in Connecticut, we ran less and less during indoor on the 150 yard flat track we had and we did better every year. If you are flexible with your schedule, you can get in outdoor track workouts at least once every two weeks during most winters.
Hillhouse has a good indoortrack but it is always locked shut and the glass window slits are blacked out/covered with paper so you can't see in the indoor track from the outside entrances. then you gotta just make sure a stray bullet doesnt hit you while you're peering inside the triple locked doors. nice track if it were available, though.
Ray L wrote:
The better question is why would you need one? Are you a nationally ranked sprinter with nowhere to train? Move south or out to California. Anybody else can suck it up and run outdoors. There have been more than a few nationally ranked distance runners out of this state who didn't step on an indoor track for training in the winter.
"Move"? Oh that's just f***ing brilliant. Great answer, genius.
Anyone can "make do" with anything. But sometimes, people would like to actually train on a proper track. Is it that hard to understand?