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 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




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