What track meet has significant prestige for participants and spectators? Also allows hobby runners to participate.
What happens to post collegiate runners who don't move to distance but want to continue is some competitive action?
What track meet has significant prestige for participants and spectators? Also allows hobby runners to participate.
What happens to post collegiate runners who don't move to distance but want to continue is some competitive action?
Hobby runners don't do track meets because they don't give you t-shirts and medals.
40 Acres and a wrote:
What happens to post collegiate runners who don't move to distance but want to continue is some competitive action?
The same thing that happens to every college athlete who isn't good enough to go pro
Not too many options, buddy. There are some open track meets at colleges, where you could go and race with C-D level college runners. If you want something better than that on the track, you'd have to be relatively fast in order to try to get into some decent meets unattached.
Pretty much all of the action is on roads. But nobody says you have to do marathons. 5ks are fine, too.
Drake Relays. A few world class races, plus university, college, high school, and Masters races. The college level includes many Division III athletes running slower than the athletes in the high school races.
bullldawg wrote:
Drake Relays. A few world class races, plus university, college, high school, and Masters races. The college level includes many Division III athletes running slower than the athletes in the high school races.
Penn relays would be more accurate. Like Boston, it is the oldest in the US. Also, it was eventually surpassed in excellence by newer races (NYCM, and Chicago), just as Drake has long been a better meet than Penn, even though the latter is preferred by east coast snobs.
Bring Back the 880 wrote:
Penn relays would be more accurate.
Correct.
1. Most people qualify legitimately, while a large portion qualify through charity.
2. A lot more merch than any other meet.
3. Focus on competition over time.
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