When going out to your local running track for a workout, you sometimes find that you are allowed to use only certain lanes for training. On any looped track, however, the outer lanes are longer than the inner lanes. That presents a problem for someone using the track for speed workouts.
With that in mind, a runner once submitted the following question to Runner’s World magazine: How can I find the exact distances of all the lanes?
“This is a common question,” veteran runner Elliott A.