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* All-weather running track, a rubberized surface for track and field competitions
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Modern All-weather running tracks are covered by a synthetic weather-resistant running surface, which typically consists of rubber ( either black SBR or colored EPDM granules ), bound by polyurethane or latex resins.
Russell also has a summer swimming pool, a hockey arena, a library, an All-weather running track and a curling rink located right in the center of the village.
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The value of Af can readily be assessed by determining the frictional force exerted on the knife while running over the previously stripped coating track under various external loadings.
Expansion and modernization of Raymond Field was completed in the fall of 2007 and features the installation of an eight-lane all-weather running track and a move to the same premium artificial turf used by the New England Patriots of the National Football League for its main playing field.
The running track was used for dirt track racing between 1928 and 1932, greyhound racing from 1933 to 1968, and Midget car racing in 1948.
Varsity teams at Dalhousie include basketball, football, hockey, soccer, swimming, track and field, cross country running and volleyball.
He attended North West Division High School in Chicago playing football and also running track.
In 1914, Dr. Harry Eaton Stewart recommended the " running broad jump " as a standardized track and field event for women.
A propane fired 1: 8 scale live steam train running on the Finnish Railway Museum's miniature track.
* A phase difference is analogous to two athletes running around a race track at the same speed and direction but starting at different positions on the track.
" Cordner Nelson, founder of Track & Field News, credited Nurmi for popularizing running as a spectator sport: " His imprint on the track world was greater than any man ’ s before or after.
males on a track running at a pace of 2. 82 m / s use 1. 41 times as much energy to travel the same distance as walking at a pace of 1. 41 m / s, with similar values on a treadmill.
To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the circumference of the wheel.
The earliest athletic shoes date back to the mid 19th century were track spikes – leather shoes with metal cleats on the soles to provide increased friction during running.
Adidas started selling shoes with track spikes in them for running and soccer in 1925.
* Cinder track, generally a refined dirt running track for track and field competitions
* Tartan track, a brand of all-weather running track that has become genericized
It consists of a " class 2 " eight-lane 400-metre running track and rugby field that has spectator seating for 1, 335.
" As their heritage would suggest, whippets are outstanding running dogs and are top competitors in lure coursing, straight racing, and oval track racing.
* 6, 370 m² -- area encompassed by a 400 m running track
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At the elite level, competitors run down a runway ( usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber ) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.
Renamed in honour of its benefactor, alumnus Eugene Melnyk, it features an artificial turf field, a rubberized running track, and lighting for evening events.
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A most useful tool for wetting the surface without running down was made from a greenhouse `` mist spray '' nozzle welded to a hose connection, to be used at low water pressure.
It consists of a soft gravel surface, excellent for running and biking.
It is possible that bipedalism was favored because it freed up the hands for reaching and carrying food, saved energy during locomotion, enabled long distance running and hunting, or helped avoid hyperthermia by reducing the surface area exposed to direct sun.
The problem with running on concrete is that the body adjusts to this flat surface running and some of the muscles will become weaker, along with the added impact of running on a harder surface.
The relative density difference means that water supports the body during swimming, and therefore makes swimming low impact compared to surface activities such as running where weight is put on to the joints, and also creates resistance when moving through the water.
Military usage includes attacking enemy surface ships or submarines, aircraft carrier protection, blockade running, ballistic missile submarines as part of a nuclear strike force, reconnaissance, conventional land attack ( for example using a cruise missile ), and covert insertion of special forces.
The TAI service, running since 1958, attempts to match the rate of proper time on the geoid, using an ensemble of atomic clocks spread over the surface and low orbital space of the Earth.
Historically, tracks were covered by a dirt running surface.
* Transom ( nautical ), one of the beams running athwart the ship's hull at the fashion timbers or the surface that forms the flat back panel of a stern of a vessel
This made for lighter braking pressure than with calipers, avoided brake fade, promoted cooler running and provided one-third more friction surface than standard Chrysler twelve-inch drums.
* Always running on a banked surface ( such as the shoulder of a road or an indoor track ) bends the downhill leg slightly inward and causes extreme stretching of the band against the femur
Seen from above the ocean's surface, the general characteristic or the islands is that of ridges, running from the North East to the South West, before turning towards the North.
Bodybuilders use the expression " Adonis belt " to refer to the two shallow grooves of the surface anatomy of the human abdomen running from the iliac crest ( hip bone ) to the pubis.
The remainder of the trip to the surface, lasting about 2. 5 minutes, was handled by smaller doppler radar units and three vernier engines running on liquid fuels fed to them using pressurized helium.
* Other decorative surface stitches such as fly stitch, running stitch, cable stitch and French knots.
It is mainly a deep-level line, running from the north to the west of London via Zone 1, with a number of surface sections, mostly in its westernmost parts.
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he had no use any longer for exact time, even had the watch been running.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
But I have been blest with excellent spirits, and to-day have been running about the deck, and dancing in our room for exercise, as well as ever ''.
His signal was for the other dogs to come running, but it was also the signal for Mama and the other maids to watch out.
Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.
His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.
Adoption and use of new and modern techniques being developed for prevention, for suppression of fires while small, and for stopping large fires while running and burning intensely.
A new application for the Unifil loom winder, running single filling for box looms, will broaden mill use of this equipment.
But fenced or unfenced, no pool-side is the place for running or horseplay.
In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.
They were reluctant to appoint sheriffs to protect the property, thus running the risk of creating disturbances such as that on the Vermejo, and yet the cowboys protested that they got no salary for arresting cattle thieves and running the risk of being shot.
Overnight, for one thing, Porter's film multiplied the standard running time of movies by ten.
A clerk in the outer office took him in to Sheriff Carruthers, a big, paunchy man with thick, white hair and a voice with a senatorial resonance which suggested he should be running for higher office.
While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.
He hung up with a bang, annoyed at himself for running off at the mouth like that but still terribly concerned with the situation he had helped to create.
He said he would not be surprised if some of the more than 30 members of the group are interested in running on the required non-partisan ballot for posts on the charter commission.
Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.
Apparently he believes Mr. Buckley holds the key to the Democratic organization's acceptance of his choices for running mates without a struggle.
LaGuardia's multi-lingual rallies, when he is running for Congress, are well staged, and wind up in a wild Jewish folk-dance that is really great musical theater.
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