Two questions:
1. Can a "triangular" track be "legal"? What exactly makes a track "legal"?
2. Looking at the sharpest curve behind home plate: does that curve have to be flat? Or, could it be banked and still be considered legal (assuming the triangular shape doesn't make it illegal already...)
http://www.imagebam.com/image/12647b521791362rojo wrote:
Somebody failed geometry wrote:And check out the shape of the outfield for the softball field next door.
Can someone post the picture of the softball field? That sounds interesting.
Right field = inside the park home run
Have you ever seen someone roll of the end of a PV pit? Doesn't happen esp if you are not vaulting 20 foot!
Mamaroneck HS Westchester County New York.
Big relay carnival in the early spring back in the day.
Cinder, sunburn, serious racing.
It looks like Pocono. It works for NASCAR so I guess the logic was it would work at slower speeds too. I'm not saying I follow that logic.
Similar track at St Mary's high school in Albany ca
Safe Space Odyssey wrote:
If it's 400m then it's all good. But it probably isn't.
I didn't think it was 400m either, but I used
gmap-pedometer.com to map it out, and it comes out to 400, it's got to be slower than a normal track, I mean if you are running anything faster than like 5:00 pace going around that sharp corner you would either lose you a ton of distance or lose you a ton of speed. It's 90 freaking degree turn. I guess you could just do workouts in lane 8 and it wouldn't be that bad, but I don't know how they race.
Wouldn't it be significantly easier to just make the track normally and then roll turf over the track when the turf needs to be used?
sillygooooose wrote:
Have you ever seen someone roll of the end of a PV pit? Doesn't happen esp if you are not vaulting 20 foot!
You are more likely to see people going off the back of the pit jumping around 14-16 feet because of kids jumping on too small of poles and poor coaching.
You'll never see it at the 20' range, the poles are too long to roll that far into the pit.
Blah Blah Blah. wrote:
It looks like an excellent way to utilize limited space.
A baseball field is far from an excellent way to use any space
What a load of shit.
I would rather have a smaller 200 or 300m track than that abomination.
You can't logistically play hockey at the same time as softball/baseball because of safety, so why didn't they just put a normal 400m track in that space, and draw out a softball/baseball pitch in the middle of the track along with the hockey pitches too? Plenty of space inside a 400m track infield to play bat and ball games. They throw a fkin javelin 250ft in there.
It's better than no track at all
You know how many HS's don't have a track?
Mine didn't, I'd take a weird track anyday
We race against a team that has a 380 meter track! No joke!
So, any race over 400 meters has strange starting points. Giving splits for the one mile & two mile is quite interesting (moving 20 meters for each lap).
Oh, it just recently was upgraded from 380 meters CONCRETE to 380 meters rubber. Ouch!
Oh #2, their XC course goes through cow pastures WITH THE COWS STILL IN IT. So, you're not only doing cow poo, but cows in the field too (though they usually leave you alone...unless you spook them as the front pack of the first race of the day usually does).
Recently they installed a deer crossing sign on an XC course and a number of deer followed the directions during a XC meet.
H.S. Coach #84710 wrote:
We race against a team that has a 380 meter track! No joke!
So, any race over 400 meters has strange starting points. Giving splits for the one mile & two mile is quite interesting (moving 20 meters for each lap).
Oh, it just recently was upgraded from 380 meters CONCRETE to 380 meters rubber. Ouch!
Oh #2, their XC course goes through cow pastures WITH THE COWS STILL IN IT. So, you're not only doing cow poo, but cows in the field too (though they usually leave you alone...unless you spook them as the front pack of the first race of the day usually does).
I call BS on this. What school would spend what it takes to install a concrete surface when they can cheaply pay for gravel dust or cinder or the like?
Legend has it that 9.0 100-yard HS runner Houston McTear had to run the 220-yard dash on the football field. Straight out and straight back on grass. His school was poor, so no track. Sometimes you have to improvise.
"When he practiced the 220-yard dash in high school he would run from one end of the football field to the other, grab hold of a football goal post, make a 180-degree turn and beeline back to the other end zone."
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I'm calling it wrote:
H.S. Coach #84710 wrote:We race against a team that has a 380 meter track! No joke!
So, any race over 400 meters has strange starting points. Giving splits for the one mile & two mile is quite interesting (moving 20 meters for each lap).
Oh, it just recently was upgraded from 380 meters CONCRETE to 380 meters rubber. Ouch!
Oh #2, their XC course goes through cow pastures WITH THE COWS STILL IN IT. So, you're not only doing cow poo, but cows in the field too (though they usually leave you alone...unless you spook them as the front pack of the first race of the day usually does).
I call BS on this. What school would spend what it takes to install a concrete surface when they can cheaply pay for gravel dust or cinder or the like?
Fool. Think vertically. Here is a track built ON TOP of a building.
http://www.livinspaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/23.jpgMORE:
https://www.livinspaces.net/projects/architecture/rooftop-running-the-tiantai-no-2-primary-school-by-lycs-architects-china/That's not unusual. The NYU track is on top of their sports center.
Millbury HS (Millbury, MA)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Millbury+Jr%2FSr+High+School/@42.2000598,-71.7664182,179m/data=
!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e4057eea4979f1:0xe205184fb0dd40b4!8m2!3d42.199584!4d-71.767411
Crocker Field (Fitchburg, MA)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crocker+Field/@42.5861054,-71.8084362,218m/data=
!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e3e656144427c7:0xf6e0e402ffd03bd2!8m2!3d42.5861501!4d-71.8085822
I'm calling it wrote:
I call BS on this. What school would spend what it takes to install a concrete surface when they can cheaply pay for gravel dust or cinder or the like?
Concrete tracks were a very real thing although I think most of them have been phased out at this point. I ran on at least two of them in the mid 90s.
Safe Space Odyssey wrote:
If it's 400m then it's all good. But it probably isn't.
Why does it need to be 400m?
Have you ever seen what they run on in African countries or what most athletes run on Jamaica? I heard the Africans are pretty decent runners and the Jamaicans have a couple decent sprinters.
