– why aren’t all middle/long distance athletics track events in multiples of 400? Why the 1500 metres and not 1600 metres so that the race is an exact number of laps.
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I ran middle and long distance in high school and during the winter and spring seasons we did exactly that! During spring track the distance runners did 800, 1600, and 3200 (some of us were also on 4×400 relay teams). Winter was the same distances, except shittier (indoors, fewer meets, sprinters didn’t invite us to run 4x4s with them, and it cost more money.) During the fall season we all ran 5Ks in state parks or golf courses, but that was XC not track.
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