Pisco Sour wrote: » I had a walk around it when I was home. In no way is it usable for any runner with the tiniest aspirations.
ergo wrote: » Are people actually running on the UCD track at all these days..? I was down near there on the bike last month - it is accessible - looks like you'd need to use the outside lanes - I couldn't see what it's like the whole way around though and, as people mentioned, some gravel or grit filling in the previously dug trenches....is it usable..?
ergo wrote: » ok, thanks for those replies needed to do an interval session the other night and Irishtown was booked up - didn't chance the UCD track in the dark though, based on the above! - will try take a look in daylight hours over the coming weeks have there been any developments on the task force and the new track funding etc...? this whole affair really stinks and almost a year later I'm still just as angry as I was on day 1 about it
ergo wrote: » needed to do an interval session
footing wrote: » If you don't mind running on grass, the GAA pitch(450m) at Roebuck is superb.
TFBubendorfer wrote: » I know this is off-topic, but you do not necessarily need a track to do an interval session.
Chivito550 wrote: » What I can’t understand is that only half of it has been turned into a car park. If they are going to destroy an iconic athletics venue, then do it right, and turn the entire bloody thing into a car park, rather than letting half the track just rot away in misery.
footing wrote: » Am prepared to bet that UCD will argue that they need the ex-track space for a multi-storey car park or urgently needed student accommodation. AFAIK, there are plans to build such accommodation on the gorgeous GAA pitch at the Roebuck side of the campus.
Testosterscone wrote: » Dunno how they can claim that 6 years on, half the track is a car park, the other half is storage area for building materials. In that time there has been a new apartment block built with another to come in both Roebuck and there Smurfitt Campus as far as I am aware, all the while the proposed new site of a track is still a temporary carpark (around 15 years after the first announcement of the plans to move as far as I am aware)
footing wrote: » If you can figure out how UCD "thinks" (not sure that's the right word; see no great evidence of "thought" in anything they do), you're a better man than I am gunga din -:)
Murph_D wrote: » The trend on most campuses is to build over sports facilities and relocate pitches etc elsewhere. DCU relocated all pitches to far side of Ballymun Road. Trinity have facilities in Santry. What about UCD - anything similar, and would it have track potential? Tradition and history rarely counts for much when it comes to developers and carparks, unfortunately.
donaghs wrote: » UCD relocated from town to a greenfield site, Belfield. The point of which was to have space for all the facilities? There's still plenty of space for a running track. As mentioned above, land was designated for it. I guess its just not a priority for the college. Which is sad considering everything else they spend money on.
donaghs wrote: » As mentioned above, land was designated for it. I guess its just not a priority for the college. Which is sad considering everything else they spend money on.
It won’t be on the original site at the Belfield end of the campus, but situated in what in recent years has been designated the Sports and Recreation Character Area of the 158-hectare campus, close to the Clonskeagh entrance, alongside the existing sports centre, Olympic size swimming pool, the national hockey stadium and the UCD Bowl. It will also be an eight-lane, tartan surface, IAAF-approved track, which like the originally facility itself, will act for training and competition purposes, for both track and field events. Work on the new track is due to get underway as soon as possible, and while it may not be entirely complete for next year, will be ready for 2020 at the latest.
RayCun wrote: » Anonymous donor to fund new running track in UCD
