Yeah, there’s an ugly case of bronchitis going around this year. Most people I know have had it, including my immediate family, brothers, friends, and business partners. It hangs around for about 3 weeks and I’m two weeks in.
In the States, we have community sports fields around for soccer, football, and lacrosse. Some are county owned and maintained for public use, and are usually open when games or practices aren’t scheduled. In the Atlanta area they tend to be artificial turf, which drains really well, but can be hot in the summer. Most of these fields are multi-lined in that they might be marked off for football, lacrosse (both men’s and women’s), and soccer, sometimes for youth and adult versions. There are tracks around too, but mostly on school or college campuses, which may or may not be open to the public. Tracks in the US are usually 440 yds or just over 400 meters.
So, at least in the US, it shouldn’t be hard to find a field that already lined. I’m not sure about the rest of the world. It seems in my travels that there are soccer fields everywhere, and places like Germany have basketball courts at most public schools. I suppose that the challenge in using a soccer field is the the dimensions seem to be rather variable, whereas American football the field is almost always 100 yds in length, marked off in 5 yrd increments.
You folks living in other countries, do you think that it will be hard to find 36.6 mtrs of course to run? This isn’t the Olympics, so it doesn’t have to be exact to the mm. The reason that I thought 40 yrds would be good, because it’s the NFL standard, which seems to have some interest outside of the US (@Aginor’s NFL thread) and it is a good general distance for most field sports to judge one’s general fitness.