So now a little about sport infrastructure important for runners.
I consider that athletic stadium with professional tartan running tracks is very desired object, it's perfect when everyone can use it, no matter if it's summer or winter, day or night.
So, now let's look if we can find in polish city (in which I live) with around 40 000 inhabitants such facility and compare to two times smaller city in Sweden with around 20 000 residents.
Polish city has one - just new built athletic stadium on which was taken place events like: National Polish Championships in distance 10 000 km, so it's really nice just look:
Swedish city has even two athletics stadiums !! It's really surprising, but... yes there is "but" - on the first there is not running tracks (there was as I heard, but was removed), on the second are :-) and its option with six lanes. In polish city on curves are 4 tracks, on straight line 6 tracks.
So it looks that Sweden won again... but ;-) there is on entrance for everyone on swedish stadium ! It's closed, when there is no sport event and you can't train there - it's sad, because it looks really encouraging for running there.
In polish city stadium is open for everyone :-) even during winter, what's more snow from tracks is removed !! In night lights are on, so you can run even when it's dark !!! :-)
In this comparison in numbers Swedish city looks better: it's smaller but more sport facilities but in Polish city everyone can use it, so in my opinion one point goes to Poland :-)
Hmm, but is athletic stadium really the best for runners if we want to just take care of your health and form? When you run for fun, for pleasure - running all around is really boring so it's nice to run in forest, parks, inside city centre or on running paths and here Sweden makes absolutely knock-out in first round....
So next time I will write about possibility of running for everyone in Sweden just for fun :-)
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