So what club is it?
So what club is it?
Dick Boulet's club, Adidas transports, Oakland CA.
If you don't believe me check the oly trials marathon results.
Fila ???? Are they still around?
Team Fartlek in upstate NY has grown rapidly in less than a year of excistance. They have a somewhat eccentric, but genius coach. Look for them to have a few runners in the marathon trials in '08, hopefully.
I am in upstate NY.
I never heard of your club.
Tell me more, please.
Send e-mail if you wish.
adidas Transports, baby!
If you're talking clubs without big $ behind them, then its no contest. The best club in the most competetive association. Not a lot of history, but if we're talking right now, you gotta be crazy to not say adi trans.
Brad Hudson trains more elites than anybody in the country right now. Their not under any team and all are individually trained by Brad.(1 olympian)I know he recently left his job to coach and develop athletes full-time. Arturo Barrios trains the World- class Athlete program.
Fleet Feet Louisville are on the up and up and have some solid guys and gals up front: Nic Crider, Jimmy Hearld, Christina Wells. Probably have half a dozen sub 15:00 guys
It's a joke. There is no Team Fartlek.
mplatt wrote:
I am in upstate NY.
I never heard of your club.
Tell me more, please.
Send e-mail if you wish.
Vertical Runner of Hudson, OH has to be up there for ultramarathoners:
Mark Godale, Tim Clement, Connie Gardner, Steve Godale, Kim Martin, Bob Porkorny
Indiana Invaders, they won the track championships this past month. They will be a contender for X-C in December.
adidas Raleigh TC
speed river racing team in guelph, canada.
they have a 3:41/7:57/13:31 guy, another 3:41/7:57 guy, a 3:48/14:07 guy, and two sub 30 10km guys.
they have no sponsorship.
J.A. McVeigh wrote:
Philadelphia Track Club, Atlanta TC, and Bryn Mawr Running Club and have avid core groups and seem to have fun with it.
ATC has an avid core group? Wow. News to me, 8000 members, 7900 of which "members" for early Peachtree status alone.
The only way to determine this is to look at the results from the national club championships.....
2004 Club T&F Championship results
http://www.usatf.org/events/2004/USATFClubTFChampionships/results.asp
2003 Club XC Championship results
http://www.usatf.org/events/2003/USATFClubXCChampionships/schedule.asp
2003 Club Marathon Relay results
http://www.usatf.org/events/2003/USATFClubMarathonRelayChampionships/results.asp
As for the hardest core road running group up in Boston, I'll vote for the Somerville Road Runners (of which I believe letsrun.com poster "Average Joe" is a member). I don't know how a small social running club runs so many road races. I think their pres, Steve Burton, runs 3 races a week the whole year, and they have this bizarre older woman named Louise Rosetti who ran no less than 160 races in 2002.
thanks for the plug for my club but just to make a couple of things clear:
1. i am not the president of the club. i do coach them and do a few other things, but not president.
2. i ran 24 races total last year, more like 2 a month than 3 a week! and i probably raced more last year than any other year. someday when i get to be Louise's age (83), i may be running 160 races a year.
we do have a lot of people out on the roads from our club, and we certainly are social! look for our distinctive singlets....
Check out "???'s" response - I'm a former Reebok Aggie, Team Eugene and WestChester Track Club runner...check out the USATF national club champs the last few years. It's hard to find a team in America, just a bunch of guys who wear the same jersey and add up points based on where they finish, I'm guilty myself.
If I could afford to move right now I'd be with the Adidas Transports before ANY GROUP IN AMERICA.
dojop wrote:What has happened to the aggies? Converse, Reekbox, Asic's..to much paty time? Where are the runners?
It's actually the Asics Aggie Running Club.
Here's a quick overview of the last few years. The women won the team title at the 2004 US Olympic women's marathon Trials (11th, 13th, 17th, 22nd), they also won the team title at the recent US half marathon champs placing 3 in the top 11. We had 2 women on the 2003 World Champs marathon team (top 2 US finishers), we have an athlete on the 2004 World Half Marathon Champs team slated for New Dehli in October. We hosted the Fall XC National XC champs in 2002 as our way to provide opportunities for other clubs, also to pay our dues for running in the other editions of the meet previously. The men were 2nd in the Breakers pede this year by 10 second to Transports. The women won their division. We have over 250 dues paying members from around California and beyond, some competitive, some social. All follow the creed "the faster we run the sooner the fun." 50+ coaches in our ranks from youth to post collegiate. One of our coaches helped a local 12 year old set national records in the 1500 and 3k last weekend in Eugene (4:34, 9:48). We had a junior club member run a national HS record in the 2k steeple as well last June. One of our long time coaches won the California HS State meet in boys DIII XC. Our president hosted a running camp last week in Humboldt that had 116 kids from Nor Cal high schools. Many of our Sacramento area coaches and members are helping construct a new XC course adjacent to Folsom HS from scratch to replace the decommissioned Sierra College course.
We are one of the few programs that allows competitive post collegiate athletes to train wherever they want within the Pacific Association and still receive product and travel funds for middle and long distance track athletes, XC runners and marathoners who meet time and competition standards. We focus our Olympic development funds on these events.
We're still around, not only in the competitive arenas, but also in the coaching and development aspects of the sport which is a key element in our definition of being a running club.
If you'd like to read more, check our website:
http://www.aggiesrunning.com/We should be pretty solid this coming XC season. Check us out in Portland and best of luck to all in their prep for the coming XC season.
Joe
You exaggerate a bit, but I am sure that was just for effect. The ATC actually has 12,000 members of whom quite a few are very active as it puts on 10 - 12 free races a year and supports numerous others - these races draw from a 100 or so to 700 - 800 people. The ATC also puts on one of the largest 1/2 Marathons in the US on T- day each year.
Competitivly, ATC Men's team gets a bit of funding to support a core group of guys who are at various stages - from good local runners to nationally competitive. We have not been quite as active in past couple years as in the past but still in the past year managed to have a marathoner at 2:18 (Mike Green, London) and a couple other under 2:30. We also have a significant group of guys in the 30:30 - 32:30 range. In XC we have placed as high as 5th in the club champs (2001) and usually send a solid crew to participate. Our Women's team had 4 qualifiers for the Oly Trials in the 'thon, including a top 20 finish (Beth Old 16th) and also had runner who just got her US citizenship finish London in 2:41.
In short, no one will ever confuse us with the Hanson's but we have a respectable program, with a a little travel money and an interested group of runners. You can do a lot worse.
If anyone wants to know more, check the team standards, whatever - check out
Cheers,
Bill Stewart
Speed River is a very respectable club that does get support in various ways from Athletics Canada, and they could compete with any club in the US, but one problem with mentioning them in this conversation is that it doesn't seem that they would welcome American distance runners. Never once was it explicitly stated, but by the tone of the conversation, it's clear that the point of the debate is to find out which grass roots program is most successful in developing national caliber American athletes. Speed River is a grass roots effort, but seeing as how it's Canadian, it doesn't benefit us Yankees one bit...