Could there be a worse city in all of the country to host Club Nats? The heat index is 108 degrees. The city is boring and barren. It is being hosted at a high school track. Somebody at USATF needs to lose their job over this one.
Could there be a worse city in all of the country to host Club Nats? The heat index is 108 degrees. The city is boring and barren. It is being hosted at a high school track. Somebody at USATF needs to lose their job over this one.
agreed. NE in July/August heat & humidity is brutal.
interestingly you can remove the "hotter than" from the thread title and it still holds true!
More missteps at all levels. Feel bad for the athletes.
Which would you rather have... Eugene Olympic Trials weather in the 60s and occasional rain, or 100+ temperatures in the rest of the U.S.?
All track and field meets should be held in the pacific northwest!
Some whiners on this board only want meets held indoors.
TP FTW
All USOC Team Trials and USA TF outdoor nats should be held in the SF Bay Area where it's always warm and there is little rain in the summer.
PNW - 60's to upper 70's
vs
Rest of the country suffering heat stroke.
Nebraska is a silly place to compete in July.
Omaha isn't really barren... Go downtown tonight and have some fun, the bars are actually alright. As for the high school track, the stadium seats more then Eugene....
All USOC Team Trials and USA TF outdoor nats should be held in the SF Bay Area where it's always warm and there is little rain in the summer.
LA Orange San Diego Santa Clara counties should rotate USA Outdoor, USA XC, USA Club, and US Oly Trials.
Alb and Boise should rotate USA Indoors
Exactly. Eugene in '16!
Critics of Eugene can bitch about the weather, Nike, lack of hotels, meth problem, etc., but there is no place in the country that appreciates and supports all track & field events like Eugene.
Disclaimer: I'm not from the Pacific Northwest.
Het index is 107 right now. Good luck to all the 10K runners running around the high school track in front of a couple dozen people tonight.
Club Nationals is required to rotate a Midwestern middle-American site between alternating West and East coast selections. I think it annually goes West-East-Middle-West-East-Middle or some such set-up. I agree hosting it at a high school is pretty Mickey Mouse though, somewhere in the Midwest would be a decent available college facility.
No offense, but there is really no point to club nationals. Maybe years ago when all the top clubs had the money, were competitive and willing to send people. The XC ones are still pretty decent, but the track ones? They're little more than an open track meet.
A track that starts at the 25 yard line. Old school baby and the steeplechase pit on the outside of the track. WTF?
Track Engineer wrote:
http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?video_id=73396-Mens-3000m-Steeplechase-USATF-National-Club-Track-and-Field-Championships-2012A track that starts at the 25 yard line. Old school baby and the steeplechase pit on the outside of the track. WTF?
As several have mentioned, the track is a high school track, but it hosts the Nebraska State Meet (all of them in a two day period), and has for years.
The outside steeple was added about 15 years ago in order to host USATF Junior Olympic Nationals, which it has several times. There are not many high school specific tracks as nice as Burke.
webfoot wrote:
Which would you rather have... Eugene Olympic Trials weather in the 60s and occasional rain, or 100+ temperatures in the rest of the U.S.?
All track and field meets should be held in the pacific northwest!
Some whiners on this board only want meets held indoors.
Typical Oregon bullshit.
At the time that the pole vault prelims were being canceled due to rain, the TV telecast described long jumpers competing in "horrible" conditions, Walter Dix was lost to team USA after injuring his hamstring in the cold in Eugene.....
It was in the 70's and 80's all week in Sacramento with ZERO rain. It was in the 70's all week at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego. It was in the 80's all week at Mt. Sac, which I think has held USATFs twice.
It was 75 degrees today at Mt. Sac.
no one cares about mt sac
who pays for this joke of a meet? i just looked at the results from today and most events have around 5 or 6 total competitors and some have just 2 and 3. if usatf is shelling out a lot of money for this, then it's about time it gets shut down and the money gets put towards a more productive use.
Check out the weather this week in the Pacific NW. It was just unfortunate Eugene got that kind of weather at that time. It easily could have been like it is now and no one would be saying anything...except the distance runners.
We still would be saying that there are next to no flights there, expensive flights there, not enough hotels there and the hotels that are there are overpriced. It's a horrible place for a meet unless one lives there.
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Ryan Eiler, 3rd American man at Boston, almost out of nowhere
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
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