| Route: | Campus Loop 5K Race Course | ||||||||||
| Mileage: | 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles. | ||||||||||
| Hillage: | One 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 5K makes nearly
one complete loops of a course laid out on the campus of the
Pennsylvania State
University. The course starts in front of the parking lot to the north
east of Shields Building on Curtin Rd 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 finish line, about a hundred yards before the
starting line. The Campus Loop 5K Course is a USATF certified course (Certificate # PA 97015 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 Campus Loop 5K course is
used for a
number of 5K races that are run on campus in the Spring and Fall. These
races
usually benefit some charitable cause or campus organization, such as
Coaches
vs. Cancer, THON, or the Penn State Kinesiology Club. The Campus Loop
5K course
is the same as that used for the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the
Art's
10K, run every July. The Campus Loop 10K
couse is twice around the 5K loop. |
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