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Poster: AZ runner
Subject: RE: Has Nike's NXN ruined Footlocker National?
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In attendance wrote:

All I can say is that NXN-SW was a disaster this year!!!! The course was probably the worst excuse for a xc course ever...dusty, dead grass, construction everywhere, absolutely horrible!!! I know for a fact that turned off a lot of athletes/coaches from returning to Tempe next year.


Nike SW was not well planned. Construction at Kiwanis Park had been going on for the past year and the organizers had plenty of time to find a new venue. The organizers of the Doug Conley Invite, which uses the same park, moved their meet to a Tempe golf course earlier this fall. The Nike SW course was the worst I have ever seen, with runners going around the lake between chain link fences and running on sidewalks. It was also very spectator unfriendly. Unless you were a runner it was not possible to see much more than the start and finish.

This has nothing to do with NXN vs. Footlocker. But it reflects poorly on the SW organizers and on AZ. Sorry to those who travelled from out of state. We do have some nice courses in AZ. But this was not one of them.
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