Why not try to appeal to the 45-65 age group at track meets?

Agreed: Life is not for the young. They are pukes and b!tches. I hate Instagram. I hate people. I think we would do better with less people. I think T&F and would be better. T&F will always have enough T&A.

We switched to metric bc the rest of the world uses it. And not to mention how simple metric is compared to imperial.

The have Master Meets for oldies

We just enter the college meets as "unattached".

Entered a local collegiate xc invitational when I was 49...beat 36 varsity college runners. It was awesome, although their coaches didn't think so.

Fulton J. Sheen wrote:

Why not try to appeal to the 45-65 age group at track meets?

You mean like having all the races run by young women in bikinis? Or did you have something else in mind?

Fulton J. Sheen wrote:

Why try to get young people to go to track meets? There are far more people in the older age groups we should be trying to appeal to .

Why try to get 17-35 year olds to the meets? They are too busy checking out Instagram, Facebook, and other stuff on their phones. Why not get older people who do not want to fuss with technology to go to the events?

One of the stupidest things we did was go metric in all the field events rather than using the old Imperial system. Who's brainchild was that?

And in between the races they can have contests to see what old guy in the stands can shout at the clouds the loudest. Who knows, you might win!

Why is it so important to get people of any age to go to track meets? Why is this board so obsessed with this?

To run or spectate? If the latter, then just have decent hot coffee AVAILABLE.

Art Vandelay the fake one wrote:

Why is it so important to get people of any age to go to track meets? Why is this board so obsessed with this?

1) This board is not obsessed with anything.

2) Individual contributors to this board may be obsessed with various things.

3) $

Sh^^^y Life wrote:

Agreed: Life is not for the young. They are pukes and b!tches. I hate Instagram. I hate people. I think we would do better with less people. I think T&F and would be better. T&F will always have enough T&A.

Thank you, oh glorious leader, Kim Jong-Il. One of your warheads can thin the herd a bit and create some crazy XC courses.

Zay wrote:

We switched to metric bc the rest of the world uses it. .

How fukking hard is it to just give both the measurements? That way the younger generation will learn both. When the older generation dies off in 30 years, they can just start giving the metric measurement. Until then all they are doing is pissing off long time fans when there is already little interest in the sport.

Besides that, if America was so great, we should make all the other countries switch to our method of measurement. We surely didn't get great practicing the metrics.