He’s at home right now laughing at watching these idiots make fools of themselves and wasting their fitness at this mickey mouse meet while he plans to destroy them all this summer. He’s gotta be loving it!
$100k per meet is in no way ‘wasting their fitness.’
Clearly you’re being tongue in cheek, but you watched that race and “dur hur sUcH a sLoW TiMe” was your takeaway?
Maybe Grant Fisher putting a 12:34 guy, the last Oly silver medalist, and a dude who just ran 26:50 with a 100m handicap to the sword over the last 400m in 51 seconds was pretty fun to watch? As well as a few typical also-rans in Jacobs and Teare dusting your little time trialers too.
Guys with zero kick go home devastated. They could’ve taken it out fast if they didn’t want to get rolled
He’s at home right now laughing at watching these idiots make fools of themselves and wasting their fitness at this mickey mouse meet while he plans to destroy them all this summer. He’s gotta be loving it!
$100k per meet is in no way ‘wasting their fitness.’
In the short term its good for someone, today, but its not sustainable. For me personally I'm fine with slow/tactical races, but this is ridiculous. Where is the money coming from? Whats going to keep it flowing? What's the plan??
Even the website is a mess. Just terrible to negotiate. Contrast it to WA/ Diamond Leagues websites = intuitive, easy to negotiate and full of information only a click away. Excellent.
Yeah I lost all respect for those runners. Not that I had much. As professionals I would have hoped they inspire other runners - not intentionally run a time that a random guy on the street could do.
He's gonna be devastated to hear that some slow idiot doesn't respect him anymore.
$100k per meet is in no way ‘wasting their fitness.’
In the short term its good for someone, today, but its not sustainable. For me personally I'm fine with slow/tactical races, but this is ridiculous. Where is the money coming from? Whats going to keep it flowing? What's the plan??
Even the website is a mess. Just terrible to negotiate. Contrast it to WA/ Diamond Leagues websites = intuitive, easy to negotiate and full of information only a click away. Excellent.
I'd rather watch Snow White than GST.
I agree on the website. It slow rolls in presentation (time wasting) and then seems to obfuscate the results.
And whose bright idea was it to put the athletes’ FIRST names on their bibs, instead of their last names? Like, bibs can be seen as cheap and distracting enough…but they manage to make them appear utterly amateur with that decision.
Yup. GST is a joke. This is the beginning of the end.
For the first time I'm going to join with the boo-birds. I will not watch any of those "events" , and to tell you the truth I hope the whole damn thing fails. Its officially a clown show.
The sport doesn't need mixed relays, 3-legged burlap bag races, 300m hurdles and GST. Just promote and put on spectacular track meets! Is that really too hard to do?
This is bad. Really bad.
it's as bad as i though.
but i'm enjoying it, the strange aura, the hind of danger disaster,
that 5k was jogging and who has the fastest 500m,
51 close for Fisher, and 3 Americans toasting the Africans,
i enjoyed that, and see that Teare indeed is the fastest in the field for a mile or 800, except Grant.
May as well begin including nicknames, emojis, hashtags, and all manner of special characters to the bibs. Last names will ALWAYS carry greater significance and weight than first names, as well as a more formal and professional energy. Otherwise, it appears to be the style of bibs you’d see at high school nationals or junior Olympics events. But I ALSO understand that they’re trying to appeal to younger athletes in that “junior Olympics/high school” age bracket.
I really enjoyed watching the finish, but Cram and Tollefson need to figure out a better way to call the race to build anticipation for a fast and unpredictable finish. They were tripping over how and whether to mention that the race was going slow and then quickly reminding us of the party line that it is "all about the racing".
They need to tell us how slow the splits are and put it into context, as in "these guys can run this pace in a warmup without breaking a sweat, so we are in for some fireworks at the end". Or, "Your personal best goes out the window in this kind of race. This could could play right into the hands of a guy like Cooper Tears who a couple years ago was US Champion at 1500m in a tactical race, so you know he has some speed." They could even speculate whether this is a tactical play to serve them in the 3000m later in the meet.
For two seasoned commentators, they seemed a bit unprepared for this type of race.
$100k per meet is in no way ‘wasting their fitness.’
In the short term its good for someone, today, but its not sustainable. For me personally I'm fine with slow/tactical races, but this is ridiculous. Where is the money coming from? Whats going to keep it flowing? What's the plan??
Even the website is a mess. Just terrible to negotiate. Contrast it to WA/ Diamond Leagues websites = intuitive, easy to negotiate and full of information only a click away. Excellent.
I'd rather watch Snow White than GST.
We sincerely hope you never watch a GST again. That way this can be your last post whining about what you don’t like.
The 5k was a disgrace. Those guys were running 75s the whole way. They should have just run a 500m race. I can guarantee the trials 5k is going to be FAST.
I really enjoyed watching the finish, but Cram and Tollefson need to figure out a better way to call the race to build anticipation for a fast and unpredictable finish. They were tripping over how and whether to mention that the race was going slow and then quickly reminding us of the party line that it is "all about the racing".
They need to tell us how slow the splits are and put it into context, as in "these guys can run this pace in a warmup without breaking a sweat, so we are in for some fireworks at the end". Or, "Your personal best goes out the window in this kind of race. This could could play right into the hands of a guy like Cooper Tears who a couple years ago was US Champion at 1500m in a tactical race, so you know he has some speed." They could even speculate whether this is a tactical play to serve them in the 3000m later in the meet.
For two seasoned commentators, they seemed a bit unprepared for this type of race.
Honestly maybe its not the format but the production that needs some changes in the us?