An outdoor track is 1/4 mile/400 meters/440 yards. Your intervals will always be written for this kind of track. They look like this: 1x1600, 4x400, 2x200, and so on.
The indoor track at West Central is about 12 laps to a mile, depending on which lane you're running in. Just figure 12 laps=1 mile there. Here are your conversions, then:
- 1600 = 12 laps
- 1200 = 9 laps
- 800 = 6 laps
- 400 = 3 laps
- 200 = 1 1/2 laps
- 1600 = 10 laps
- 1200 = 7 1/2 laps
- 800 = 5 laps
- 400 = 2 1/2 laps
- 200 = 1 lap (I know, but do you wanna run 1/4 of a lap?)
You can use these standards for all track workouts if you want to work out on the indoor track, OR you could do your track intervals on a treadmill (or an elliptical trainer, if your knees and ankles are getting cranky).
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