The front end lines of the numbered start boxes (the one on the right)
is the actual start line.
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I still encourage using this old style of starting block brace. By using
two solid holes drilled in the surface (see right at the top of the 1),
instead of the (longer than for shoes) spikes on the bottom of the blocks,
there is that much less damage done with each placing of starting blocks.
It may be "old school" and will require some maintenence to
drill out the dirt occasionally, but as opposed to having to resurface
the starting area, this is preferable. On an asphalt track like this,
the short spike variety wouldn't even work--there is nothing to dig into).
There are so many lines on this track that they have had to label each
of them, again this was done by Coach Louie Quintanna (who is now over
at Allan Hancock College).
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They use colored lines to mark their various hurle marks, green for 110h,
red for 100h and blue for 300h. I just noticed in looking at the photos,
that the final 300h and 100h marks are almost on top of one another, rather
than being separated by half a meter. One more thing to look at the next
time I return.
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For a period of time, this was the home of the Hancock Relays, once a
major track meet. Since the collegians were running at this high school
track, they had a steeplechase pit, where the yellow section of the grass
is now. Like Hancock, they had a grass runway to the pit.
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