This morning I was doing a workout on the track before I went to work and a football coach and athletic trainer asked me to leave.
I told them that I was on the schools track team a few years ago (which is true) and that I've always been able to run on the track when nobody's using it.
They told me that they're cracking down on usage this year and if I really want to use the track I can get in touch with facilities management and try to reserve a time.
This seems pretty sh-tty to me.
Is this normal behavior among colleges to treat their alumni this way?
Was asked to leave my university's track this morning
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Yes they don't care about anyone. They were told not to let anyone on it and they like to enforce it, makes them feel good. They aren't thinking rationally and don't really care.
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be honest were you gallowalking in ln 1?
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A good percentage of schools have this policy, it isnt abnormal.
I think it is a bunch of BS if it is a public school.
Are there signs posted regarding use? Any official policy that you can find? A minority of schools will post a policy along the lines of "public use during hours not used by official school use" or something like that. -
You should go back next time you want to do a track workout. If they accuse you of trespassing just say "takes one to know one" and they will not be able to argue with that logic and they'll be required to let you continue your workout.
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sit and kick wrote:
be honest were you gallowalking in ln 1?
lol i was not. I did have kind of a rough workout though, definitely had an off day today.
What also was kinda lame was that there were other people there running around too and I'm the only one who got talked to. -
Just ignore them and keep using it.
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Dude Gaga wrote:
Just ignore them and keep using it.
this 100%
make them do something about it
also, how do you know it's a real policy. who's to say it's just some dude without authority making it up? -
This happened to me recently at my local university's indoor track facility (Vandy) that I pay a monthly membership to use.
It was prior to their upcoming football bowl game and the team needed a final walkthrough, complete with their film crew and the head coach over the PA system shouting directions from a weird crows nest thing.
I was asked to leave the track because they needed to use it to stretch and put gatorade / water stations and trash cans.
Was pretty pissed, but was outnumbered 200:1 so I made some shitty comments and went home.
They got BLOWN out. -
If it is a real D1 university, you shouldn't be on the track. If the door happens to be open to the basketball arena, you probably wouldn't walk in and start shooting baskets or a security guard would be called. If it is a D3 school, nobody should care.
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stay away wrote:
If it is a real D1 university, you shouldn't be on the track. If the door happens to be open to the basketball arena, you probably wouldn't walk in and start shooting baskets or a security guard would be called. If it is a D3 school, nobody should care.
I agree.
If I wanted to practice field goal kicking I couldn't just show up unannounced at a major university's football stadium or practice facility and start working out.
Unless a stadium or practice facility has specific hours for public use....it isn't public and don't expect to workout in that stadium. -
TrackFan19 wrote:
stay away wrote:
If it is a real D1 university, you shouldn't be on the track. If the door happens to be open to the basketball arena, you probably wouldn't walk in and start shooting baskets or a security guard would be called. If it is a D3 school, nobody should care.
I agree.
If I wanted to practice field goal kicking I couldn't just show up unannounced at a major university's football stadium or practice facility and start working out.
Unless a stadium or practice facility has specific hours for public use....it isn't public and don't expect to workout in that stadium.
I see your point. Yes it is "D1", at least in name. It's by no means a prestigious school, athletically or academically.
I guess I find it a little strange how selectively this policy is enforced -
oceanman wrote:
TrackFan19 wrote:
[quote]stay away wrote:
If it is a real D1 university, you shouldn't be on the track. If the door happens to be open to the basketball arena, you probably wouldn't walk in and start shooting baskets or a security guard would be called. If it is a D3 school, nobody should care.
I agree.
If I wanted to practice field goal kicking I couldn't just show up unannounced at a major university's football stadium or practice facility and start working out.
Unless a stadium or practice facility has specific hours for public use....it isn't public and don't expect to workout in that stadium.
Also, funnily enough, I used to do just that with no issues while I was still going there lol -
Public schools exist to serve their current students, not everyone else. I can't go put up a tent and camp on the otherwise unused lawn.
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stay away wrote:
If it is a real D1 university, you shouldn't be on the track. If the door happens to be open to the basketball arena, you probably wouldn't walk in and start shooting baskets or a security guard would be called. If it is a D3 school, nobody should care.
Bull-oney. At our school the track was purposely open to the entire community (at certain times of day). The facility is for everyone to use.
Of course that didn't stop the football coach trying to kick everybody off the track including the track team. He eventually succeeded and we had to build a whole separate track elsewhere. welcome to D1. -
Unless it is "Oceanmaster Memorial Track and Stadium" they have every right to tell you to get off of the fvcking track. You dont see ex-basketball players randomly showing up at the uni's basketball arena to shoot hoops.
Get over it. -
Football, basketball, soccer, baseball, wrestling, swimming. Try showing us and using the facilities at a major D1 school.
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We couldn’t even use ours after college. We’ve lived all over and I’ve been told to leave tracks left and right. Even ones that I had permission to use and were practice tracks (meaning their was another right next to it). Nobody on them either. I think it’s strange. So many tracks not in used. I will tell you though I hate high school tracks during the school year. Doesn’t matter what time my workout is always interrupted by the gym classes. Even when I’m in the last reps at 7:15am here they come! Best time is during the middle of the day in the summer when it’s 100 degrees
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Alass wrote:
We couldn’t even use ours after college. We’ve lived all over and I’ve been told to leave tracks left and right. Even ones that I had permission to use and were practice tracks (meaning their was another right next to it). Nobody on them either. I think it’s strange. So many tracks not in used. I will tell you though I hate high school tracks during the school year. Doesn’t matter what time my workout is always interrupted by the gym classes. Even when I’m in the last reps at 7:15am here they come! Best time is during the middle of the day in the summer when it’s 100 degrees
These days, with all the security required for school shooting threats, you are lucky you didn't get arrested.
No one should be allowed to just show up on school property. Student safety is more important than your workout. -
That one's got to be the dumbest yet. Most campuses of large universities are open to the public at all times. People running track workouts are not shooting threats. The tracks are publicly funded and not in use. Fail to support the broader running community and you get no support or local development of track yourself. Tracks probably decay more rapidly from weather and spiked up team athletes doing workouts than anything else anyway. Use them or lose them.
