Autoxfil wrote:
Near me there's a 13.1 mile race every year. There was already a local 20km race, which makes perfect sense, so maybe they just wanted to do something a little different. I can't think of any other reason for a race of such a stupid arbitrary distance.
That's actually a pretty common distance, it's called a Pikermi.
runnerguy123 wrote:
1600m should be standard wrote: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 feel the same way about the 5k. I've never understood why they don't simply run the 6,400.
clubracesdabest wrote:
7.1 miles
The old Mahopac (NY) race?
Old timers can relate to these races but the new millennials probably can't -
600 yards and 1000 yards on indoor tracks. Common place probably until the early 80's.
probably the wrote:
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?
It's because Europeans hate America.
My first track race ever was at 660 yards. Junior high event.
Falmouth Road Race used to be listed as 7.1 miles and the finer print listed it as 7.01 miles. Certified now as a '7 Mile' race.
Since moving to Phoenix..I thought the 4.2 Pat Tillman run was different...and believe it or not they have some race out here that is 9k in length after the 9 months a woman carries a baby or something???
Paavo Nurmi wouldn't have believed any of this
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1/4 marathon. 26.2 / 4 = 6.55 miles Harrisburg 1977.
Just thought of the Gate to Gate run on Eglin AFB, 4.4 miles. Celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. Still have an age-group award from the first edition.
The John Kelley road race in New London CT is 11.6 miles. Great race I've run a couple times but I never understood why it was that length. It's over 50 years old too.
main circle "mile." best race ever, approximately 1255m, +/- depending on the year. and yes we always broke four for the mile
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