@harry_greene We need a performance of Pete’s song above!
I’m too late for another star post but still want to share my Sweet 1600 season recap.
After making more travel plans for the summer than I normally do, one of my Challenge sub-goals was to see how many different tracks I could log a Sweet 1600.
Most notably is the three-laps-per-mile track on the level 4 deck of the Disney Wonder cruise ship, which I ran many times during vacation in August. I logged my lifetime furthest-from-Ithaca run (Challenge effort or otherwise) on that track while docked in Skagway, Alaska. Google says this was 2711.7 miles from Ithaca as the crow flies. I also logged runs several other times over international waters, but none were further away than Skagway. I’m only counting that track as one venue even though the GPS coordinates were different on each run. Sadly, I didn’t have time to get to a track on land while in Vancouver, British Columbia, Juneau, Alaska, or Rochester, New York during the same trip.
Other venues included three in Groton — one in Groton, New York, and two in Groton, Connecticut — and two in Middletown, Rhode Island. I also ran on several local ones, including Trumansburg High School, Ithaca, High School, and Schoellkopf Field at Cornell, plus three dirt tracks — Sweetgum, Trumansburg Fairgrounds, and the Cornell Horse Track. I didn’t make the time to get to Newfield, Dryden, or even Barton Hall, and couldn’t figure out when the indoor and outdoor ones at Ithaca College are open, if ever.
In the beginning I was hoping for more but ran out of time. For a non-track runner, 12 different venues in four states was the best I could do, and I had fun with it.
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