The race organizers were told the morning of the race they couldn't hold the race at the original location. Most likely due to the golf course not wanting their grounds to get chewed up. They only had a couple of hours to create a new course.
The race organizers were told the morning of the race they couldn't hold the race at the original location. Most likely due to the golf course not wanting their grounds to get chewed up. They only had a couple of hours to create a new course.
At AAU XC in Tallahassee a couple years ago, they ran through deep puddles the whole way in a downpour that flooded most of the setup area and after the race the boys all jumped and swam in the new pond that had just formed near the finish. So, they should have just picked another field to run on in a town where the cars and buses wouldn't be flooded out, instead of going to the roads.
Cross country times / records are fairly worthless to try to compare across venues. Course records are a little more meaningful but are influenced by weather. Track times are a little easier to compare (still influenced by weather, except indoors).
Lumbersnacks wrote:
"Heavy Rain" as in record breaking rain.GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) – Grand Junction experienced its wettest day in 50 years over the weekend, causing significant flooding in the Redlands area and prompting a disaster emergency declaration from Gov. Jared Polis.
The Tiara Rado Golf Course was among the hardest hit, receiving 2.5 inches of rain, which led to severe flooding and the closure of the course over the weekend. This unprecedented weather event affected much of Western Colorado, with significant rainfall recorded at the Grand Junction Regional Airport.
“For Western Colorado, at the lower elevations, getting over an inch of rain in a day or two inches in two days is a pretty big deal and it ranks high up there in the record,” said Russ Schumacher, a climatologist and professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.
Brayden Kelley, the intern golf professional at Tiara Rado Golf Course, explained that the course was shut down on Saturday and Sunday to allow it to dry out.
No one is questioning or doubting the conditions or circumstances regarding why they had to set up an alternative course in a short amount of time.
Further, most people here understand thst every course and the conditions on any given day make comparison irrelevant...its a race against fellow competitors toeing the line that day.
What a lot of people, especially in Colorado hs xc, both current and past dont like is that this course is being called a 5k when it was actually a 3 miler and that it completely rewrote the record books for fastest CO soil record, all time classification records and league & school records. Further, this was a one-off course setup hastily and poorly marked and monitored and most importantly...will never be used again.
The course and performances should be properly recorded as a 3 miler, not a 5k.
Hobbyjogging time. Needs to be 13:30 to be taken seriously.
This is simultaneously: 1) a really impressive race and 2) not actually a Colorado soil 5k record, because it was not a 5k.
We can cut everyone some slack here. The race directors changed plans last minute, probably because the golf course told them they couldn't run on the grass because it would damage the course to have so many people running on the soggy surfaces. No one expected it to become a national news story.
At the end of the day, it's a high school race.
lol 14:18 and all the Americans think it’s an amazing time
Last second course change because of rain. No one thinks this is a real time or that the course was 5K.
shoddy reporting. Anyone reporting that this is a Colorado soil record didn’t do their research.
road race, not cross country wrote:
What's up with states such as California, colorado hosting road races and not 'running on grass' cross country races? just to boost race times? why not just find a downhill course made of pebax, with a tailwind, and release some bears and see who can hold through 5k?
Can't speak for the other states but where I grew up in Southern CA, there weren't a lot of park options. It was all cement. Hence most of our races were on roads.
road race, not cross country wrote:
What's up with states such as California, colorado hosting road races and not 'running on grass' cross country races? just to boost race times? why not just find a downhill course made of pebax, with a tailwind, and release some bears and see who can hold through 5k?
The annual rainfall along the Colorado Front Range (Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins) is 15 inches. The few large patches of grass are there because of heavy irrigation, and are in high demand from other sports.