Using a 1.25m lane width, the difference is 54.97mHandy calculator...http://www.csgnetwork.com/disttracklanecalc.html
Usually the size of a track is determined by the inside measurement, and the track becomes longer in the middle lane, and even longer yet in the outside lane. this is why you see them at most tracks qualify on the inside lane, its shorter.
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Nearly all high school running tracks are nominally a "quarter-mile" or 440 yard track. But there is a difference in distance depending on which lane you run in. If you stay in the outside lanes and don't move to the inner lane during the turns, you'll be running significantly longer.
Yes! I would normally do the math but I am exhausted. To do the math, you need to know the inside & outside diameter of the track and than convert that figure into its circumference. That gives you an exact answer. In my estimation in will be close to 10% of the overall length which on a 400 meter track would be 40 meters. Using this as a "Guess-timate", running 10 laps in the outer lane will be the same distance as 11 laps on the inside of the track. I ran track to stay in shape for football & wrestling for 4 years and ran on tracks for a great number of years until I became ill.
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.
An 8 lane track is 9.76m wide, so divide by 8 gives you 1.22m. Or you can go and measure it.
The distance gap between each lane is equal to the circumference of the semicircle at the end of the track plus the width of the lane. Assuming each lane has the same width, the runner in the outside lane should receive a head start equivalent to the circumference of one semicircular end plus the width of one lane.
The length of a 400-meter track is actually measured along a "measuring line" that is located in lane 1. The measuring line is exactly 400 meters. The actual location of the measuring is based upon whether there is a raised curb on the inside of track, or not. Go to NCAA.ORG for the specific measurement to the lane. It's approxiamtely 30 from the outside edge of the interior lane 1 line (which is 2-inches wide) for raised curbs, and approximately 20 cm from the outside edge of the interior lane 1 line for no curbs at all.
No, the inside lane is shorter, the farther you go out, the longer the lanes become. Standard track lanes are 1.22m wide; therefore the following lengths apply for one lap of each lane: 1 400m (inside) 2 407.67m 3 415.33m 4 423m 5 430.66m 6 433.38m 7 446m 8 453.66m (outside)
or if you want to know the distance of each lane i think lane 8 is something like 450m. if you measure from the start of the 400m back to the finish line and add 400m that should give the dist. you would travel in that lane