Word: tracked
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Financed by the Friends of Harvard Track, the Harvard Bubble will boast a synthetic Tartan running surface designed to lessen the muscle strain most indoor runners experience from long periods of running on conventional board surfaces...
...structure will house a six-lane track (11 laps to the mile) with an 80-yard straightaway. Unlike a similar bubble constructed at the University of Pennsylvania last year, the Soldiers Field facility will be large enough to accommodate the weight and field events. Seating for about 400 spectators will also be installed...
...that the construction date is final, McCurdy can hardly wait to escape the narrow confines of dingy Briggs Gage, the limited indoor track building that he has had to share with the varsity football and baseball teams at various times of the year...
...This new bubble is really a marvelous facility," McCurdy said. "I doubt that there is anywhere in the East, with the exception of the new athletic complex under construction at Princeton, that has as much potential for track and field operations," he said...
...Tartan track will enable us to do much more work at practice," McCurdy said, "and while times may be slower at first, the lightened impact on runners' legs and feet will allow my men to carry on the type of practice they want...