Oh, I was meaning it as a positive. I am aware of Arizona geography. The Coach is a Georgetown grad and presumably not Navajo, so I find it an interesting angle on his part. That is all I was implying.
For the most part I enjoyed the article, but I did find the writing to be a bit choppy. I understand its hard to write a piece such as this that appeals to and informs the general non-running audience, but it seemed to bounce around a bit too much in its references to runners, Mike Smith, different time periods, etc.
One thing I did notice that the author references to Tyler Day as a "fellow Kiwi"- that isn't right... right? I was under the belief that he was born and raised in the US.
I don't understand this comment. I have an online subscription to NYT (and, for that matter, the Atlantic, which I just realized is not what this thread is about), but how does that help me to read this article? I have no idea what "disabling Java" means or how to do it, and "google is your friend" probably isn't going to provide the impetus for me to find out, but I would like to read a well-written article about the running scene in Flagstaff.
The NYTimes bought The Athletic and then they cut their entire sports department and outsourced it to The Athletic so they don't have to pay sportswriters who are part of the union.
You get quirkier, more wide-ranging stories as a result but maybe with less polish. I really enjoyed the article. If this were a real Times story they would've called Geordie Beamish for a quote though. The paper is obsessed with bougie things and that includes On.
You can log into The Athletic with your Times account to read it. Plus someone on the previous page posted an archived link to the story so it bypasses the paywall.
I don't understand this comment. I have an online subscription to NYT (and, for that matter, the Atlantic, which I just realized is not what this thread is about), but how does that help me to read this article? I have no idea what "disabling Java" means or how to do it, and "google is your friend" probably isn't going to provide the impetus for me to find out, but I would like to read a well-written article about the running scene in Flagstaff.
As already mentioned, The Athletic was bought by the NYT a few years ago. Eventually the Times shuttered its sports department because it was redundant with The Athletic. If you have a Times subscription, go to "sports" and you should have access. If you don't, then you need to change your NYT subscription to "all access," which I think (but am not sure) is $1 per month more than the standard NYT sub.
really good article, though Tyler Day isn't a Kiwi. I think he's from Gilbert, AZ.
Big miss from the fact checkers:
In the fall of 2017, Dick Quax sat in his living room in Auckland, New Zealand, watching a broadcast of the NCAA men’s cross-country championship. The scene prompted the former world-record holder in the 5,000-meter race to call his son, Theo, into the room. Matt Baxter and Tyler Day, fellow Kiwis, hammered the race from the front for Northern Arizona on a blustery day in Louisville, Ky. “It was the coolest, manliest (thing),” Theo Quax says now. “Like you cannot hurt these guys.”
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