I’ve been putting down some speed work and general miles at my local YMCA’s indoor 200 m track.
The short track is mind numbingly boring, but I can run here for a long time while my twins play basketball or soccer or just run around, so it’s worth it to get the miles in and they can burn off energy.
Today, over the course of 40 loops (boring) I hit each at about a min flat. That should be an 8 min mile (5 miles) but it felt somewhat faster. My Suunto says I ran closer to 5.7 miles.
Should I chalk this up to bad GPS —being indoors— or is this just the difference running loops in the outer lane which seems logically longer than the inner lane?
I’ve been putting down some speed work and general miles at my local YMCA’s indoor 200 m track.
The short track is mind numbingly boring, but I can run here for a long time while my twins play basketball or soccer or just run around, so it’s worth it to get the miles in and they can burn off energy.
Today, over the course of 40 loops (boring) I hit each at about a min flat. That should be an 8 min mile (5 miles) but it felt somewhat faster. My Suunto says I ran closer to 5.7 miles.
Should I chalk this up to bad GPS —being indoors— or is this just the difference running loops in the outer lane which seems logically longer than the inner lane?
Why would you have a gps on indoors? And why would you expect it to be accurate indoors?
I use the manual lap function indoors —but the GPS was on. I just got this Suunto and not sure how to turn it off. Having said that, I don’t expect it to be accurate, though some of my friends with a new garmin get a perfect signal in this track. We have massive windows and skylights in this old armory.
Much of the time it does track me and shows a circle around the track on my map so I know it’s somewhat working.
Each lane is 1 yard (3 feet) or 0.9144 meters wide. For one lap of the 200m track, the distance increase per lane is 0.9144 x 2Ï€ = 5.745 meters.
Each lane is 1 yard (3 feet) or 0.9144 meters wide. For one lap of the 200m track, the distance increase per lane is 0.9144 x 2Ï€ = 5.745 meters.
So in lane eight for 40 laps we’re looking at over one mile added.
OP, what lane are you in and are you staying in that lane the whole time?
I was in the outer lane the whole time. Although I think there are 6 lanes on this track, not 8. But that could account for the close to a mile extra.
Thanks!
Why would you use GPS on a track?