| Route: | Campus Loop 10K Course. (At times used as the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts 10K Race Course) | ||||||||||||||||
| Mileage: | 10 kilometers, or 6.2 miles. | ||||||||||||||||
| Hillage: | Two loops over a mostly flat
course with
a couple of short hills. The long stretches of the course that are on
Curtin
Road are gentle downhills.
Total elevation change: 133 ft.
There is a rise of about 50 ft.
from the
corner of Porter Rd. and the entrance road to the track to the corner
where
the entrance road meets Hastings Rd. by the Materials Research
Laboratory.
The grade is over 4% for about 100 yards. There is another sharp rise
of
nearly 30 ft. on Fraser St between Pollock Rd. and Curtin Rd. The grade
is nearly 5%. |
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| Description: | The Campus Loop 10K makes nearly
two
complete loops of a course laid out on the campus of the Pennsylvania
State
University. The course starts in front of the Bryce Jordan Center near
the corner of Curtin Rd. and University Drive. The course heads east on
Curtin and makes a right on Porter Rd. The course goes right at the
entrance
road to the track area, then bears left up the hill along side of the
Materials
Research Laboratory. The course then makes a right at Hastings Rd. and
continues on Hastings as it crosses University Drive. The course bears
right at Bigler Rd. and then makes a left on Pollock Rd. At the corner
of Fraser St., the course makes a right and heads up a short, but very
steep rise to Curtin Rd. Making a right on Curtin, the course continues
for about a mile to the starting line. The course then repeats the
above
loop, finishing in front of the Intramural Building on Curtin Rd, a
couple
of hundred yards before the starting line. The Campus Loop 10K Course is a USATF certified course (Certificate # PA 97016 WB). A precise description of the mile markers follows for race directors:
Note: Any deviation from the USATF-certified course invalidates the certification! |
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| Remarks: | The USATF Certified Campus Loop
10K course has been used for the Art's Festival 10K. In recent years,
the campus roads over which the course is run have been continually
torn up due to the campus construction boom. Here is a link to the
current Art's Festival 10K course. |
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