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This is a post about two different Sweet 1600s, but I only have one in Webscorer as the first was a while ago…
Last week I was on vacation in Berkeley, CA, where I went to grad school. On my Monday run, I started off by running from where I was staying near the Bay to Edwards Track, the main track at UC Berkeley. It is yellow, and not a nice University of California gold, but instead this color:
I ran about 600 meters, then someone sent me off because the track was closing. In search of another track, I ran up into the Berkeley Hills and the Clark Kerr campus. The slopes on the way up are Ithaca-level steep, but the views are worth it:
The Clark Kerr track is not a synthetic track, but instead a gravel one with no lanes. It also has this weird fence around the infield:
Today I’m at the University of Michigan campus and found another non-synthetic track, this one with a giant plastic tent on the infield and an asphalt surface. It is a warm day, about 90F right now, and already warm at 8:00 this morning but I managed a respectable 8:13 in the middle of a low-key run.