From May 1 through May 16, 2025, the club sought input from members to gauge interest in structured track workouts. A total of 18 respondents completed a brief survey about locations, availability, and attendance likelihood at in-person track workouts. Full survey results may be viewed on this PDF: LSRC Structured Track Workouts Interest Survey Results_2025_05_30.pdf

Synopsis of results

• The results from the track interest survey showed people are interested in meeting together to do workouts, whether that is doing one of the club's planned workouts or their own workout. 
• Evening workout times were more popular overall, with Wednesday evening having the highest number of people indicating they would be able to attend (10/18 respondents), followed by Tuesday evening (9/18 respondents).
• Lake Washington High School (Kirkland) was the most popular location (15/18 respondents), followed by Redmond High School (11/18 respondents). The International School (Bellevue) and Northshore Middle School (Bothell) were third and fourth, respectively. The three "Other" locations for a track location suggested by members included Chinook Middle School (Bellevue), Eastlake High School (Sammamish), and Juanita High School (Kirkland).
• Half of all respondents would still be interested in a weekly workout that they could access and take anywhere to do on their own while another quarter said they would potentially be interested, depending on what they were training for.

Moving forward with this information

It is clear at least 18 people - and likely more - are interested in doing track workouts, ideally with others for company. At our next board meeting on June 3, we will discuss implementation of track workouts in potentially several stages:

1. Improve our goal races tracking system so we can better track members' training goals for the year. As a club, we need to consistently encourage each other to share our goals!
2. Design plans that align with club-focused runs (e.g., training for a summer 5k or fall half-marathon) and decide on the best avenue for disseminating these plans to our members (e.g., posting the workouts onto the club website).
3. Secure track at a consistent location and time. (Historically, weekday evenings during the schoolyear are more difficult to secure than during the summer due to schools using their tracks/fields for fall/spring sports, but this isn't to say it's impossible to be at the same location year-round.)

Please stay tuned for more updates on track via our emails (for subscribed members) and information posted on this site!