Colby's New Athletic Center (a $200million infrastructure investment)

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There’s an indoor track at the Y in Ann Arbor. I’m guessing it’s probably the same number of laps per mile, although the outside lanes will reduce that number. When I’m in AA, and it’s cold outside, even that small of a track is really nice to use and have available.

Regarding additional stress on runner’s joints due to the shortness of the 200 meter indoor track, allegedly, according to the UMich website:

Using Beynon Sports’ “Rise-N-Run” technology, the track – surfaced with the same BSS-2000 material used at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships and at many world-class facilities – can be raised or lowered from flat to banked. The hydraulic actuators (constructed by Mitchell Machine Works) that lift the track can create an embankment on the curves of up to 10 degrees, subjecting the student-athletes’ bodies to less stress and creating more speed as they navigate the track’s two turns.

Now, whether it does or not, I don’t know. And whether Colby will use the same technology, I don’t know.

https://mgoblue.com/sports/2017/6/16/facilities-track-field-html.aspx