The increased popularity of running the past two decades has challenged athletic facility owners and designers with ways to make the sport of running more accessible, safe and fun for all. Today, we see indoor and outdoor running tracks of many designs and made of a variety of materials. With hundreds of color, design, and materials to choose from, the possibilities are endless.
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What are tracks made of? It’s one of the most commonly asked questions. For outdoor tracks, material choices include crushed rock, asphalt, concrete, rubber, and poured or sprayed urethane/rubber. High quality running track systems of rubber and urethane are most popular for indoors. Indoor running tracks most often cater to recreational running and multi-use, so varying needs for performance, functional playability, and safety must be balanced
Running tracks geared for fitness and recreational running have shock absorption high on the list of priorities to reduce muscle fatigue and joint injuries. A safe track reduces the legal liability of the facility and improves the satisfaction of the athletes using it. Community, YMCA and fitness centers are good examples. Indoor tracks typically have a quality shock absorbing sub floor supporting the rubber or urethane track surface. Often, these facilities must serve multi-purpose activities and sports. Which means the track design is integral to the other sports flooring in the facility. These highly engineered floor systems combine flooring materials for multi-use like track, basketball, volleyball, tennis and soccer.
With an outdoor track, runners seek comfort and performance. Getting the right combination of materials for the top layer is essential for providing the comfort over the unforgiving hard ground below. Another factor to consider is longevity. Different types of systems have different life cycles and require different maintenance and care schedules. If you’re putting in a new outdoor track, after you do your own research, you should then reach out to a track specialist. They can ask the right questions to make sure the track installed is one that can fit your needs, vision, budget, and schedule.
What’s track and field without the field equipment? Anderson Ladd, now H2I Group, stocks hurdles, starting blocks, pole vault pits, high jump pits, shot puts, and javelins. We also source, install and maintain your in ground sand pit forms and covers, vault boxes, cages, and track edging. For indoors or outdoors, we have innovative products for field events played in all elements. For example, we install recessed long jump and pole vault pits and covers indoors for year round play. The pits are covered when not in use so they do not interfere with other activities in the facility.
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The greatest facilities begin with the greatest designs. Let our team of experienced designers work with you or your architect to layout a facility perfect for whatever sport, or sports, you're playing.
Every piece of equipment has its own unique installation procedure, but there's no need to worry about that.We only work with experienced and certified installers with years of flooring and equipment installations.
Once you have a world class athletic facility you'll want to keep it that way. From parts and repairs to annual maintenance, our team will help keep your equipment running safely and smoothly.
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Carleton College prides itself on its world renowned academic excellence and athletic standing. In an effort to provide a more memorable college experience for its students, Carleton College decided to remodel their running track flooring in their outdoor track athletic facility. What resulted was an extremely pleased and happy client, as well as a brand new, world class international level outdoor running track.
