Course - USA 15km Race Walking Championships

The course is a 2.5km loop on a straight, flat, smooth, asphalt section of the Greenway Trail with no road crossings and no vehicle traffic. The course has no camber or other side-to-side slope. There are great sight lines to see other race walkers because the course is so straight and flat. The Greenway Trail used to be a rail road track going into the heart of Minneapolis. The trail is below grade, with an overpass at every block, providing ideal locations for spectators, and keeping traffic and exhaust well away from the course.

The event hotel is adjacent to the start/finish line, for easy access before and after the race.

The start/finish line is located 500m from the west end of the course and 750m from the east end of the course. This gives a 2.5km out-and-back loop course. If you are familiar with the course we used the last couple of years, this is essentially the same course with the east end of the course extended to give use 2.5km instead of 2km.

We changed the course to 2.5 km to reduce the number of times that you have to traverse a corner. Now there are 4 corners for each 5km, where the old course had 5 corners for each 5km. This is a 20% reduction in the number of corners.

Everyone starts going east, and everyone finishes coming from the west. We will use both lanes of the trail for the start.

With chip timing, we will capture split times for each walker every time they cross the start/finish line, in either direction. That means that the first split will be for 1.5km and the second for 1km, and the third for 1.5km, etc. If you want to capture 500m split times, you can do so by bringing your own watch. We will place a 500m sign and a 1km sign along the side of the course east of the start finish line, opposite each other, 500m east of the start/finish line.The five 500m split points for the 2.5km loop:

• the 500m sign

• the 1km sign

• the start/finish line

• the west end of the course

• the start/finish line.

 

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