nothing will ruin a mid day workout like a gym class. Who else gets excited for winter/summer when you can actually use the track without interruption?
nothing will ruin a mid day workout like a gym class. Who else gets excited for winter/summer when you can actually use the track without interruption?
Most High Schools use the "facility" for practice. When you go inside that fence, you are actually trespassing. There are designated times the high school has exclusive use of each particular facility. Learn the rules. I go around 5:45 / 6 AM. I am out of there before 7:15, no-harm, no-foul. everybody's happy.
Representative of Everyone wrote:
jamin wrote:I'm not actually distraught about this
Then why would you think that the rest of us care at all? You are an egomaniac.
He just wanted to let us know he ran 26.27
Do you even go to school there? Why are you running during the soccer game. I hope you know you are officially "that creepy dude" now
The tracks in my town are not open to the public AT ALL. They are locked up 24/7 with signs that read "For school use only. Trespassers will be prosecuted."
soccer < running wrote:
So runners need to use public tracks after 10pm and be happy about it?
What's wrong with talking about lack of track access?
It is a real problem.
The problem is lack of public tracks. I can understand wanting to keep the general public off hs tracks. There are some creepy people out there and it would be a liability if someone got hit by a ball or collided with a player and got hurt. If they let one guy run, a week later he shows up with his whole running club. Etc.
However, the public should have 24/7 access to tracks, free of charge. The issue is that they are rarely placed in public parks. In neighborhood parks and stuff they build basketball courts, soccer fields, etc, but almost never put in tracks. Most cities have athletic complexes for rec leagues, but these are typically only soccer, baseball, and maybe lacrosse facilities. The problem with all of these is they require multiple people for a game, whereas an individual can use a track.
And people wonder why Americans are so obese! Its like as soon as Americans get old enough to be done with rec sports, besides at colleges, athletic opportunities disappear, unless you were lucky enough to be among the elite few who were set up with trust funds by their parents enabling them to set up in Park City, Bend, Flagstaff, Boulder, or Asheville.
Your best bet is to use a university track.
45 wrote:
Most High Schools use the "facility" for practice. When you go inside that fence, you are actually trespassing. There are designated times the high school has exclusive use of each particular facility. Learn the rules. I go around 5:45 / 6 AM. I am out of there before 7:15, no-harm, no-foul. everybody's happy.
It's dark outside until about 7:15 a.m. this time of year and I don't think they keep lights on. Same with after 10 p.m.: I doubt the lights will be on if I go at that time.
Hingle MacJaminberry wrote:
He just wanted to let us know he ran 26.27
I thought it's customary when making a LetsRun post regarding a workout to give all the details. My intent was 4 x 200m at that pace with 3 mins rest between reps.
They were probably most put-off by you setting up a FAT electronic timing with whoever more than the actual running.
jamin wrote:
Hingle MacJaminberry wrote:He just wanted to let us know he ran 26.27
I thought it's customary when making a LetsRun post regarding a workout to give all the details. My intent was 4 x 200m at that pace with 3 mins rest between reps.
not who you think I am wrote:
Who was the other girl who's soccer game you disrupted?
In your effort to call him out on his incorrect use of the apostrophe (girl's vs girls') you made yourself look like a total twat by using "who's" instead of "whose"
Nobody wants to be forced to watch a pasty-looking guy in short shorts run obsessively around a track no matter what the rules may be.
Jamin, I drove by Shoreline Stadium at 1030pm tonight and the lights were still lit. It's an option.
Eugene the Careful Axe Wielder wrote:
Jamin, I drove by Shoreline Stadium at 1030pm tonight and the lights were still lit. It's an option.
Nice Pink Floyd reference in username!
Anyways, there are 2 tracks within a mile of my place, one a nice high school track and the other a crappy dirt junior high track. I ended up doing a workout on the dirt track yesterday and today and it was fine.
For the integrity and fairness of the soccer game, they should not let you run during the game. You running could be a distraction, high school girls see a middle aged man with a pot belly circling them and it bothers them. The NFL plays in public stadiums, why can't Rojo run at the Cowboys games.
Jamin, do you use FAT for all of your track workouts, or was this one special?
When you got kicked off you should have said "Yah well I'm going to build my own track. With black jack and hookers!"
The problem is endemic to many areas. I finally found a flat stretch of less traveled road and used a surveyors wheel to mark off 400, 600, 800, 1000.
No kids playing soccer out there.
jamin wrote:
uhhh, respect? wrote:Unwritten rule... if there is a game taking place on the infield, you don't use the track. Go elsewhere.
There were hardly any parents in the bleachers, the parents who were there were sitting in the upper levels of the bleachers, and I was running in lane 6. They had a clear view of the game. Ever seen the periphery of a big football game? There are a million things going on between the bleachers and the field itself.
That is an "unwritten rule". I have to go with you showing a lack of respect doing laps around the track during the soccer game. Really they should not have had to tell you to leave. The arena was theirs (players and spectators)
It was rude.
Conundrum wrote:
jamin wrote:There were hardly any parents in the bleachers, the parents who were there were sitting in the upper levels of the bleachers, and I was running in lane 6. They had a clear view of the game. Ever seen the periphery of a big football game? There are a million things going on between the bleachers and the field itself.
That is an "unwritten rule". I have to go with you showing a lack of respect doing laps around the track during the soccer game. Really they should not have had to tell you to leave. The arena was theirs (players and spectators)
It was rude.
Rude?
The players are on the grass. The spectators on the bleachers. He is on lane 6 and not in anyone's way.
How is that rude?
You must be one of those censoring nipples on TV.
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