Check out the University of Hawaii's track:
Check out the University of Hawaii's track:
Although it sucks for spectators (lack of decent seating and concessions), the Dempsey in Seattle is one of the best places to compete!
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My high school track was triangular:
http://www.verdedesigninc.com/portfolio/private/img/saintmarys_large.jpg
How long is that triangular track?
Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego has a track pretty similar to Pepperdine's. Overlooking the ocean from several hundred feet up. Just incredible.
http://magicalmysticalteacher.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/plnu-17-feb-11-001.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/33374429.jpg
I've also never really had trouble getting onto the track to work out whenever I want.
My other favorite was on the lawn at Trinity College, Dublin.
I was there in the summer of 2008 and the lawn, manicured like a golf green, had an accurate 400m track painted on it in white. I used to do mile repeats barefoot. It was great. Last time I was there though (in 2010), the track wasn't painted on the field anymore.
UCSB, one of a kind!
Drake Relays, when it had the little straight chute in the turn next to the scoreboard. Throw in the external steeple pit that required a 90 degree turn to get back onto the main track, and it was like a Putt-Putt course.
nice topic!
I'll throw my 2 cents in for Macrae Meadows in Linville, NC. It's over 4k in elevation and at the base of Grandfather Mountain.
http://www.marcillewallis.com/GMHG09Track.jpg
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/641843
It's a cinder track..very old school.
BYU has a really cool track. Nice baby blue track. Sits right at the base of the mountains with the "Y" looking over the track.
Erin Donohue, who trains out of Haddonfield, NJ during some part of the year, works out at Paul Vi High School. She obviously must think it's good; I agree the track is much softer and bouncier than any other track I have come across. I think its 3 years old.
I liked working out on the Caltech track several years ago - just a six lane track, but as you approached one curve, you see yourself in the reflective glass outside lane 6.
For some reason, when I first saw Duke's track, I thought it was the coolest track I'd ever seen. Probably because we walked up on it from campus, not knowing where it was, and all of a sudden, boom, it's like right below us. Kind of in a bowl type setting, where the entrance is from the top of the stands.
The picture doesn't quite do it justice though...
http://www.fieldturfindia.com/original/Synthetic-Track/Duke-University.jpg
Humboldt State among the redwoods.
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Humboldt State among the redwoods.
Here's some pics:
http://www.d2football.com/stadiums/humboldtstate/t145/Here are*
434 meter track at Cal East Bay.
Starting @ starting line; a white triangle 34m away.
After that,triangles are 50m apart.
From the starting line there is a gold triangle
34m short of 1 lap (400M),
another gold
triangle 34m short of the 400 mark(800m),
another 34m short of the 800 mark (1200m)
and finally another 34m short of that (1600).
Less than 7 laps for a 3000 meter run.
It's gotta be Baynard in Wilmington DE. That place is dope as fukkk. Replete with fat walkers and random old black dudes sprinting one lap then leaving right after. Yeah, it's my fave
dont know if that link will work, but woodbury track in new jersey.... ran on it in high school ... pretty much 4 striaghtaways
Most colleges have a field house or athletic offices next to the track. At Caltech, the adjacent building is the astrophysics lab. My vote for prettiest venue is Pomona College. Just throw your blanket out under the tree and watch the meet.
U. of Washington will have a new purple track.