You may all think I’m nuts, but I had this crazy notion to build my own Olympic size training ground…for my son and his friends.

I started the permitting process three years ago, and started excavating a year later (with the 5 required state and town permits completed).

300 x 70 in June

My son runs Track, and a standard inner lane is 400 meters in length How to construct an oval that is 1,312 feet long? I asked my engineer and we plotted it out on a survey, it can be done and so we began.

400 x130 today

Did you know an Olympic size Pool is 164 feet (50 meters) X 84 feet (25 meters)? Did you know an Olympic regulation size hockey rink is 200 feet X 100 feet (60 X 30 Meters) and did you know if you were digging a one to three sloped wall…which will be filled with water 5 feet down from the top of the wall…and you wanted all of these Olympic sized Sports to be accommodated you would have to excavate and area of 400 feet-by- 130 feet…I didn’t know that at first.

 ...still working on it son.

Did you know if you dig a hole that is 400 long X 130 feet wide and you dug down 25 feet to fill this hole with spring water, you would have to remove 1.3 million square feet of volume…yeah I didn’t know that, right away either – but now I do. Bonus…sport: If a pond is 400 feet long and you want to hit a ball to clear this (about 450 feet) a 150 yard 8 iron is just about right.

We're ready to play too!

Year two of Digging,I hope to be done before my son Graduates.   

     Who thinks I'm Crazy? Well truth be told my wife, my son my contractor, my neighbors...are all willing to sign the papers to have me committed, But I have vision and will prove them wrong, you'll see.