CEx wrote:
http://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/3100 miles.
Damn...I can see why so few have finished
CEx wrote:
http://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/3100 miles.
Damn...I can see why so few have finished
1600m should be standard wrote:
Critical Thinking wrote:1600 meters
1500m are/were weird. Lets run around the track 3 and 3/4 times.
1600m is natural: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m.... 1600m.
I agree...never understood the 1500m. The 3000m is also odd
I heard once that 1500 goes back to a long time ago when in Europe they had 500 meter tracks. Also have heard it is run because it is 1.5 kilometers. I think it would make more sense if we ran events like 1000, 1500, 3000, etc. but only if we ran them on a different length track. 500m would be good. Sprints would be more difficult to run but maybe there could be a straightaways in the field the track surrounds like at some indoor tracks. Replace the 400 with 500, 800 with 1000, etc.
The marathon. Extend the 40k distance so that it ends in front of the Queen.
(Addendum: No true blue collar runner will ever run a marathon.)
5250 meters
4600 meters. Was suppose to be 5000 officials stopped the race a lap early. There was maybe 5-7 people in the race.
OklahomaGuy wrote:
I heard once that 1500 goes back to a long time ago when in Europe they had 500 meter tracks. Also have heard it is run because it is 1.5 kilometers. I think it would make more sense if we ran events like 1000, 1500, 3000, etc. but only if we ran them on a different length track. 500m would be good. Sprints would be more difficult to run but maybe there could be a straightaways in the field the track surrounds like at some indoor tracks. Replace the 400 with 500, 800 with 1000, etc.
Or ..... we could just do away with the metric idiocy and just run imperial distances as God and Nature intended.
I'm not exactly sure how the 1500 became the event in the first place, but 3000 isn't that odd of a distance - 3 kilometres on the dot.
runnerguy123 wrote:
I agree...never understood the 1500m. The 3000m is also odd
Back in 1976 somebody organized a 1776 yard race to commemorate the bicentennial.
The steeple school record at my NAIA school has been on the books since 1987. A great run as it beat the record of a guy who later ran in the Trials. But alas, they started from the 5000 starting line so it was like a 2900m steeplechase.
I see that distance all of the time.
My weirdest distance is 1.71 miles
The Wharf to Wharf in Santa Cruz used to be 5.8 miles.
It's not really "odd" since it's standard at the high school level. But, I've always wondered, why, dear God why, do they run the 300m hurdles instead of the 400m hurdles in high school. If the tracks were smaller I could understand. But, that's not the case and they run the open 400.
Got it wrote:
I saw Duane Solomon race a 725m race
Yeah. It's a shame that they had the finish line farther down the track and they couldn't get his time.
The 5000m and 10,000m records at my school were done on a grass track, except they were done on a warmup lane on the inside. So the 5km was actually 4.9 and the 10km was 9.8
We have a local "through the decades" race with 3 distance options: 6k, 7k and 8k. The t-shirt for each distance is a retro style from that decade.
1609.344 meters
magic flight wrote:
The JP Morgan Corporate Challenge is 3.5 miles. It's really annoying.
The one in New York.has changed to 3.2. The whole event is really annoying.
I ran the JP Morgan Chase Finals on Park Avenue in New York in 2005. The course was mis-measured and short by 1/10th mile.@ 3.4.
My first NYRR race was 2.9 miles for their 29th anniversary. It's still my PR.
There is a Midnight Run in Rachel Nevada (Most alien sightings or something like that) with a 51K to commemorate Area 51.
Probably the 1500. 400, 400, 400, 300. I don't understand. Is it just cause it sounds nicer than 1600 or that it's easily divisible by 5?
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