|
PSU Multi-Sport Facility Staggers |
 |
 |
|
courtesy of Marty Mazur and Ken Forstmeier
The chart below gives the number of laps you need to run to get certain distances in each lane on Penn State's Multi-Sport Facility/Horace Ashenfelter III indoor track (between the Bryce Jordan Center and the outdoor track). They are based on a 42 inch lane width. The length of stagger per lap per lane is 2*pi*(42in) = 263.9 in ~ 22 ft. As an example, if you want to run 800 meters in lane 5, you need to run 3.53 laps, so your stagger is just under half a lap. You start just before the half-lap mark, run to the finish line, and then do 3 more laps to get your 800 meters.
NOTE: Lane 6 on the indoor track is almost exactly the same length as the jogging track above the bleachers in Rec Hall: about 6.85 laps per 1600. Run 10 more yards and you have a mile.
| Lane |
200m |
400m |
600m |
800m |
1000m |
1200m |
1400m |
1600m |
| 1 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
3.00 |
4.00 |
5.00 |
6.00 |
7.00 |
8.00 |
| 2 |
0.97 |
1.94 |
2.90 |
3.87 |
4.84 |
5.81 |
6.77 |
7.74 |
| 3 |
0.94 |
1.87 |
2.81 |
3.75 |
4.69 |
5.62 |
6.56 |
7.50 |
| 4 |
0.91 |
1.82 |
2.73 |
3.63 |
4.54 |
5.45 |
6.36 |
7.27 |
| 5 |
0.88 |
1.76 |
2.65 |
3.53 |
4.41 |
5.29 |
6.17 |
7.05 |
| 6 |
0.86 |
1.71 |
2.57 |
3.43 |
4.28 |
5.14 |
5.99 |
6.85 |
Here is a table giving the number of laps needed to run a US mile in each lane.
| Lane |
Laps to Run 1 Mile |
| 1 |
8.045 (8 laps plus 31 ft)
|
| 2 |
7.78
|
| 3 |
7.54
|
| 4 |
7.31
|
| 5 |
7.09 (7 laps plus 60 ft) |
| 6 |
6.89 (73 ft short of 7 laps)
|
And here is a table giving the number of US miles per lap in each lane.
| Lane |
Miles per
1 Lap |
Miles per
2 Laps |
Miles per
3 Laps |
Miles per
4 Laps |
Miles per
5 Laps |
Miles per
6 Laps |
Miles per
7 Laps |
Miles per
8 Laps |
| 1 |
0.124
|
0.246 |
0.372 |
0.496 |
0.620 |
0.744 |
0.868 |
0.992 |
| 2 |
0.129
|
0.258 |
0.387 |
0.516 |
0.645 |
0.774 |
0.903 |
1.032 |
| 3 |
0.133 |
0.266 |
0.399 |
0.532 |
0.665 |
0.798 |
0.931 |
1.064 |
| 4 |
0.137
|
0.274 |
0.411 |
0.548 |
0.685 |
0.822 |
0.959 |
1.096 |
| 5 |
0.141
|
0.282 |
0.423 |
0.564 |
0.705 |
0.846 |
0.987 |
1.128 |
| 6 |
0.145 |
0.290 |
0.435 |
0.580 |
0.725 |
0.870 |
1.015 |
1.160 |
Note: The North American Race Walking Association has a nice online calculator for any length track and width of lane.
|
|
Last Updated on Thursday, 30 September 2010 15:42 |