400 meters. The track is designed so that no mater what lane you are in, the distance is equal as long as lane 6 starts ahead of 5-1. There are starting markers on the track that will say 400m, 200m, ect. and that is how you know where to start. The starting points are scattered because of the potion of your lane, if you are in lane 1, you will be starting in the back. If you are in lane 8, you will be in front. The only time you are not staggered is if you are on a straight path such as a 100m or 50m.
In lane one it is the finish line on a 400m track.
Stay at least 15 inches from the rail all the way around a 400 meter track and you will cover a quarter mile (440 yards) each lap. So you can run 4 laps in lane one and cover a mile, as long as you are on the outer part of the lane.
The area inside a 400-meter running track is approximately 87,120 square feet. This calculation assumes a standard 400-meter track with lane widths of 1.22 meters each.
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Using a 1.25m lane width, the difference is 54.97mHandy calculator...http://www.csgnetwork.com/disttracklanecalc.html
100 meters. The entire track is 400 meters around.
Basically, the 400 meter dash is one race around the track. Everyone is assigned a lane at the starting line, and after the pistol goes off, they must stay in their lane and run all the way around the track approximetely once.
Virtually all athletics tracks are 400 metres long. This is why they have a staggered start in 400m races. An 800 metres race is therefore 2 laps of a 400m track.
It would be the same because they line you up further ahead the more outside you get in the starting line to make up for the difference.
A standard outdoor track is 400 meters long for one lap.
An indoor track is set to be 200 meters, or 8 laps for a mile. An outdoor track is set at 400 meters , or 4 laps per mile.