Official 2019 USATF XC Live Discussion Thread

That's what you think, I bet every Nike athlete comes out with the Spiked vaporfly with 3/8 spikes in it for XC.

Who's everyone's picks for top 3 for women? Is everyone predicting Houlihan to win or ?

Yer smart, yup. wrote:

dont get it wrote:

Why don't we have our qualification race on a course that is at least somewhat similar to the actual worlds course? How can USATF suck so bad at making decisions like this. We are going to send the wrong team to words and we will get destroyed.

Correlation doesn't imply causation

The world's course has over 1000 feet of climbing over 10K. This will be similar to running a 1500 to see who runs in a 10000.

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

tally wrote:

I think the Army/transplant factor makes it much more difficult on the men's side, whatever one may think of that.

Ya think?

Imagine if we had an all East African-born team? Wow. Coevett would lose his mind.

I lol at this hard ???

The Angel of Death wrote:

For as much crap as the xenophobes on the message boards give the "naturalized" Americans, at least we can count on them to run at World XC. If a runner has no intention of running World XC, why should anyone hope they run well at USAs?

^^^^^

I hate to say it but they have a point

dfadf wrote:

How does one gain entry into this trial?

Have a USATF membership and pay $45 to sign up.

Why do they put all the fake Americans on top of the list? That's racist.

You need to be a USATF member. Besides that, there is no qualification standard.

Wow, the US could field an all Kenyan team.

don't get it wrote:

Yer smart, yup. wrote:

Correlation doesn't imply causation

The world's course has over 1000 feet of climbing over 10K. This will be similar to running a 1500 to see who runs in a 10000.

False. Any guys who make the team will be equally prepared for any course they choose to race. Stop acting like a hilly course conforms to a special skill set that top pros don't train to prepare for. It's not a rocky, mountain course, for f*ck's sake. Get out of that jayvee mentality.

The help you out (from the dictionary):

American [uh-mer-i-kuh n] noun

a citizen of the United States of America.

Racist [rey-sist] noun

a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.

Nice race preview by the English-born journalist

No one mentioning Eric Jenkins? Was NCAA XC runnerup

Junkins wrote:

No one mentioning Eric Jenkins? Was NCAA XC runnerup

He might finish ahead of Hunter

Junkins wrote:

No one mentioning Eric Jenkins? Was NCAA XC runnerup

Jenkins is not running -- I checked with his agent Ray Flynn. Sorry, should have noted that in the preview. But that's why he wasn't mentioned.

runn wrote:

This could be a team that wins worlds- both men and women.

NO NO NO NO on the mens side. Not even close.

Women's side - not happening either unless the other countries just send total B teams. Actually, it's just not happening either. I mean you do realize Huddle isn't doing it most likely. So who do we have that could even conceivably get top 10 besides Houlihan. Answer: Nobody.

Don't get me wrong, I"M SO SO EXCITED but we aren't winning gold.

You do realize that Kenya went 1-2-3-4-5-6 last time for the women?

Boulder delusionals, where ya AT??! I see Thweatt and Hunter, that's IT!

Too bad about Jenkins; was looking forward to seeing him. Excellent preview. I think Aliphine Tuliamuk entered after the list put up in the OP; she is deservedly mentioned in the preview as among the top contenders.

Weather channel has just about taken rain out of the forecast for Saturday; now saying only a slight chance of a shower.

Dang. That’s a bummer on jenkins.