HS meet cancelled due to chance of rain - is this normal?

6/10

Not a bad trolling attempt, gets at a few hot button topics including:

School administrators

"Kids these days/back in my day"

Californians

Weather

It's normal, but lame.

Sad but rue. They just did it in Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago, was raining and windy while setting up for the meet, so inspite of the forecast showing that it would improve during the morning and so on, they postponed it for a day. Not so hardy and tough those New Englanders.

mudder wrote:

My kid's high school cross-country meet today was cancelled due to a chance of rain. The weather forecast for the afternoon calls for rain with 0.02 inches per hour, 7 mph winds, 66 degrees. No thunder or lightning in the forecast. In other words it's a moderate, steady rain, not a crazy storm.

Maybe I'm way off, but I thought running in the rain and mud was part of what cross-county is all about. This meet was scheduled for the Crystal Springs course in San Mateo CA, which certainly has some hills, but not anything I would have considered dangerous in wet weather. Why would they cancel? Liability reasons? Fear of course damage?

Is it on the golf course? There is your answer, golf courses don't want their fairways torn up.

I do Finishlynx timing, and increasingly I'll get asked about rain dates, as far as 7 days in advance. It's weird, but they don't want teams coming 1-2 hours for nothing.

With cross though, I'm definitely baffled by it. But, if it was a golf course, I can understand, depending on location.

Crystal Springs is not a golf course - it's one of the few courses I know whose main purpose is specifically cross-country racing. It's owned by a local college, and they allow other schools to hold meets there too. On days when no racing is happening, it's open to the public, and I run there pretty often.

Kenyans are famous for not wanting to run in the rain. Are the race organisers Kenyan?

Most likely to keep the course from being chewed up. It will host league championship races every day next week (not to mention a club meet this weekend).

So, this is all on the course, not on the athletes. Note that several other meets in the Bay Area are going on today.

Oh, and technically the land is owned by the San Francisco Water District with the College of San Mateo allowed to administer the cross country course.

Millennial Snowflakes wrote:

Makes sense because precious millennial snowflakes would melt in the rain.

I don't think the ones making decisions are millenials.

Maybe their meteorologists had a more ominous forecast?

Ran on that course many times in HS, but it was during a drought. Don't think I ever ran on it went it was raining or had recently rained.

our county meet was called off today for the same reason and the course is 95% black top - almost a road race.

did it rain yea was it cool out yea but we still had practice. seems like if we had practice we could have had the meet

i chose D2 wrote:

Millennial Snowflakes wrote:

Makes sense because precious millennial snowflakes would melt in the rain.

I don't think the ones making decisions are millenials.

The decision makers are not the ones at risk of melting in the rain.

Hallmark Park wrote:

Most likely to keep the course from being chewed up. It will host league championship races every day next week (not to mention a club meet this weekend).

So, this is all on the course, not on the athletes. Note that several other meets in the Bay Area are going on today.

Oh, and technically the land is owned by the San Francisco Water District with the College of San Mateo allowed to administer the cross country course.

Thanks, this makes sense. I was looking forward to spectating a cool and wet meet today instead of the unseasonably warm weather we've had for most of the meets this season. But I can understand not wanting to chew up the course in advance of soon-to-come championship races.

14 pound baby wrote:

our county meet was called off today for the same reason and the course is 95% black top - almost a road race.

did it rain yea was it cool out yea but we still had practice. seems like if we had practice we could have had the meet

Wow. I've never heard of an XC meet being cancelled for weather. It's a different time.

This is true.

Sounds like Bob Rush. That guy has gone off the deep end as he has aged.

With all the league meets they likely wanted to keep the course in good condition. Still it is very odd.

Only if the course can be compromised. I'm in College now, but we've had meets in thunderstorms before.

Hallmark Park wrote:

Oh, and technically the land is owned by the San Francisco Water District with the College of San Mateo allowed to administer the cross country course.

It might have more to do with parking/access to the site.