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The Sweet 1600 “course” is unlike all other FLRC Challenge courses: it involves running 1600m on any standard track. That could be 8 laps on a 200m indoor track, 4 laps on any 400m outdoor track, or even 2 laps on an 800m track. The goals of the Sweet 1600 are to provide some experience of running on a track—we love track too!—and to give Challenge runners who are traveling a chance to notch Challenge efforts while they’re away. Please run only on tracks to which you have access, and if you run on a track outside of our area, please submit photos and tell us what it was like. We’ve found some great tracks around the world. Results | Posts
NEW! Thanks to FLRC club member Harry Greene, we now have a Sweet 1600 trail course that winds in and around his tree farm on West Hill—we’re informally calling it the Sweetgum 1600 after the tree. Unlike a normal Sweet 1600 on the track, where navigation involves running in circles, the Sweetgum 1600 comes with a narrated drone tour of the course.
- Google Maps pin to the start/finish
- RunGo directions (for iOS, Android, or Apple Watch)
- Download GPX file for importing into a GPS watch or smartphone app
- Bathrooms: Go through the blue door on the smaller building and up to the second floor to find a composting toilet. Please read the directions!
To ensure that everyone has at least several chances to race the 1600m, it will be part of FLRC’s all-comers summer track series, with Sunset Circuits on June 17 and Trackapalooza on July 19, both at Groton High School.
Other area schools that have tracks include:
- Cornell University (Barton Hall)
- Cornell University (Berman Field) (often available, sometimes locked)
- Dryden High School
- Groton High School
- Ithaca High School (usually available on weekday mornings from 6-8 AM)
- Ithaca College (being built for a possible completion date in September 2025)
- Lansing High School (closed for construction in 2025)
- Newfield High School
- Trumansburg High School
Please follow posted signs or check with the school administration before running on a track. Avoid high school tracks completely during school hours, and if a track (or the field it surrounds) is in use for any other purpose, don’t run without first asking for permission.
Because you can run on any standard track, you’ll have to record your times using a watch and submit them manually using the Webscorer app.