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- From: julien@skcla.monsanto.com
- Subject: Re: 200 meter track?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.141423.1@skcla.monsanto.com>
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- Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
- References: <Bz8nK8.6tv@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:14:23 GMT
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- In article <Bz8nK8.6tv@cs.uiuc.edu>, epstein@cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein) writes:
- >
- > The indoor running facility at my university just reopened. I plan to
- > do some running in there this winter, when the weather does not permit
- > running outside, and when I want to do some interval training.
- >
- > I figured one advantage of running on an indoor track would be that
- > it'd be easy to tell how far I've run. It hasn't worked out that way
- > so far. I've been told that it's a 200 meter track, i.e. that the
- > inside lane (lane 1) is exactly 200 meters around. The problem is
- > that joggers are supposed to use lanes 5 and 6.
- >
- > Are 200 meter tracks standard, so that the same lanes on different 200
- > meter tracks are the same distance? If so, does anyone know what the
- > distance is for lane 6 of a 200 meter track?
-
- If I recall correctly, I believe that if you are in the last lane, 7 laps
- around the track would be one mile.
-
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