I have to run on a wooden, 160m track next weekend. Help?

I don't remember for sure but wasn't the indoor 3:49 on a flat "over-sized" track? Certainly not boards and I don't think banked either.

The Chairman wrote:

"...banked board can be almost as fast as outdoors--some runners claim even faster."

Eamonn Coghlan's Mile PR's

Outdoor 3:51:59

Indoor 3:49:78

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Sometimes, I hate this sport wrote:

Yeah, that one.

Are you going to the 6A meet?

I'm going to the 5A! I guess they're the same meet basically?

Dang! Lotta okies out here.

I'm pretty sure 5A and 6A are split up though. We (6A) race on friday the 26th

True story, as a half miler, my coach made me run a 2 mile on a 130 yard asphalt, indoor track located in a basement. Around 27 laps. Man that stunk.

My best memories from college a decade ago was running indoors, and especially running on the boards.

Pretty good read:

https://www.si.com/vault/1980/01/07/824282/really-making-tracks-engineers-have-given-indoor-runners-faster-tracks-but-opinions-differ-widely-as-to-which-one-is-quotfastestquot

Hoser, eh wrote:

I don't remember for sure but wasn't the indoor 3:49 on a flat "over-sized" track? Certainly not boards and I don't think banked either.

The Chairman wrote:

"...banked board can be almost as fast as outdoors--some runners claim even faster."

Eamonn Coghlan's Mile PR's

Outdoor 3:51:59

Indoor 3:49:78

You don't remember any of it. 160 track, boards and banked.

No need to be snippy about it. You're right. I was picturing an unbanked 300m track at the Meadowlands--I thought that was where he'd run sub-3:50.

Denial of HRE wrote:

[quote]Hoser, eh wrote:

I don't remember for sure but wasn't the indoor 3:49 on a flat "over-sized" track? Certainly not boards and I don't think banked either.

You don't remember any of it. 160 track, boards and banked.

WhitePony wrote:

Is this the track? That's kinda cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnsu0Cru940

Yeah that's the one.

They removed the paint from it and Two years ago one of my teammates was leading the mile when a section of it collapsed

Your biggest worry is losing track of laps? I'm jealous. I would love to take a spin on a wooden indoor track sometime.

My high school had an unbanked 149m indoor track that was approximately 10.75 laps to the 1600. I did the 3200 on that baby a couple times, 21.5 laps. I'm pretty sure that I won not because I was the fittest that day, but because I was the only one that didn't get bored and lose their concentration. Another fun race was the 2x4x800, that was the race that would never end. I probably still have the school record, because that race probably has not been run since then.

Once or twice a year for the relays or conference meet, we would move the gymnastics equipment and get use of the big loop to extend the track to 189m. The arc of turns were so tight that you basically had to jog the turns.

When we head down to the proper indoor tracks at big universities, our times would magically drop 10 secs for the 1600 or 5 secs for the 800.

justthefacts wrote:

The above named tracks were all 11 laps to the mile or 176 yds per lap, not 160 meters. So two miles would be 22 laps.

Might wanna check your maths, hoss. 11 laps/mile tracks were 160y. 10 laps/mile tracks would be 176y or very slightly more than 160m.

hugh e johnson wrote:

True story, as a half miler, my coach made me run a 2 mile on a 130 yard asphalt, indoor track located in a basement. Around 27 laps. Man that stunk.

True story as well: In the late 1970s my high school team ran some of our meets at the Jamaica Armory in the New York City borough of Queens. The "track" there consisted of cones placed on the flat asphalt floor of the Armory's garage, 12 laps to the mile. The floor was slippery with engine oil, and it was always freezing in there and reeking of exhaust fumes from the jeeps and troop transport trucks that were constantly pulling in and out. I once saw a race in there halted by a solder driving across the track and nearly taking out some runners.

I was a 2-mile specialist, so I had to do 24 laps in that abyss.

But I also had the pleasure of racing on the banked board tracks at the old Nassau Coliseum and Madison Square Garden, and as others have noted in this thread, nothing beats the circus atmosphere of indoor track: the proximity of a crowd screaming right in your ear, the bouncing surface, trading elbows at high speed in a bunched pack taking tight turns, splinters if you fell, and sling-shotting out of a banked final curve to sprint for a win. Despite the inevitable severe throats and coughing fits that came from all-out efforts in stale indoor air, those were some good times.

Just make sure to wear wood spikes. Metal ones will stick into the track and you'll have to exert extra effort to pull them out every stride when you pick your foot up.

spike selection wrote:

Just make sure to wear wood spikes. Metal ones will stick into the track and you'll have to exert extra effort to pull them out every stride when you pick your foot up.

This may have been sarcasm, but we aren't allowed to wear spikes for the 1600/3200

I ran the Big Eight Indoor track meet on a twelve lap hardwood track. The spectators were right up to the track with the men smoking cigars. I think I dry heaved every time I ran.

WhitePony wrote:

Is this the track? That's kinda cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnsu0Cru940

Is this what people in Oklahoma sound like? Jesus Christ bring back the dust bowl if that’s the case.

Seriously mate? wrote:

WhitePony wrote:

Is this the track? That's kinda cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnsu0Cru940

Is this what people in Oklahoma sound like? Jesus Christ bring back the dust bowl if that’s the case.

Yeah, that dude does have one of the most annoying voices I have heard but at least he doesn't sound like he speaks banjo, dates his cousin, and has "southern pride" written on his truck

*cough*Talequah*cough*

Meadowlands was 10 laps to mile, as was Cobo arena/ok city track

Make sure you have the right shoes for the event. Simplot Games doesn't allow spikes outside the final.

For me that meant I used my XC spikes, though I would've preferred my Nike Zoom Milers (2004 version) spike.

VHS...home sweet home!!

And, yeah, you probably still hold a piece of the 2x4x800m record since that event hasn’t been run there since about 2008-2010.

Bump for 2 days until said meet