Rupp a no-show in uw mile?

It looked like Leer was just a bit upset at the pacing. I heard him say that they were supposed to run straight 59s quarters and the race panned out to be more like 61, 2:01, 3:02. I am sure he was still pumped to break 4 for the first time. I mean, who wouldn't be?

Agree, lots of easy little steps could help the profile of the sport. I know this was a preview event, not one of the prime UW invitationals, but practice makes perfect and builds buzz. I think the building is the UW football indoor practice facility, which creates a lot of the painful limitations I complain about below. Seems like they wouldn't be hard to fix if the athletic dept wanted to try, though.

1. Nice track at UW, 5 laps/mile, so a good place to race indoors. Unfortunately, a shitty place to watch. No stands, just a huge infield, mostly full of field events, lounging athletes, and gym bags. The event is the the athletes, of course, but if you want any spectators at all, put at least 1000-2000 bleachers at the indoor track.

2. UW failed to get any press coverage. Didn't even provide box-score style results in the Sunday paper today.

3. There was an announcer for events on the track. But what keeps people interested at a long invitational like this is field events. There was a lot going on, it could have been fun. Men & women pole vaulting for hours. Dozens of guys throwing shot. A freaking army of high jumpers, running & jumping constantly. I saw a few old guys (50+ and 60+) spinning the indoor weight throw, for goodness sake. A few announcements per hour to draw attention to a few of these competitions would have kept up the energy & interest.

4. How about some snacks for sale? This is an all day event. Lack of concessions forced me and 3 other families with kids to leave after a couple of hours. Kids don't want to come back.

5. The event was free (other than $5 for parking on UW athletic grounds). With any of these amenities above, I would have happily paid a small admission fee to see this.

Some bright spots at this event, still. The mile was a damn good race without Rupp. Bryan Clay entered Lord knows how many events, and won or placed second in three. Norris Frederick edged Clay with a sweet 25'8" long jump. Mason from BC high jumped 7'5" and change!

leehamster

I'm glad chuckles the clown felt it necessary to make fun of this guy. Why did nobody else jump in?

it doesn't matter - the problem I have with most of you cats on Letsrun, is, most of you cats who post are dweebs, no talent or bitter folks who have never pushed the envelope, never broken 2:00 in the 800 meters but feel they have the edge on the upper echelon athlete. Man - get a life, I'm tired of hearing perspectives from guys who'll say, maybe, they'll be in Dental school next year opposed to running on the US CIRCUITS. Grow some and get some - excellence, is an aquired taste, try some time - Los

"Most of you cats who post are dweebs." Man, that's deep. Not to mention you just told people to go run the Us circuits instead of going to dental school. I guess you have a point, the us circuits are just overflowing with money, and girls. And Grow some and get some? Does that mean grow some and get some (balls)? Cause I don't want a damn thing to do with that if it does.

so cowboy, check ya later los, dude!!!11

snacks? you're right next to a university campus... take a walk to the nearest 7-11 or something.

this is an absolutely silly post... you are right most runners on here are not near as fast as rupp or any of the elite runnersbut then again all of the football fans who discuss the nfl are not very good football players either - but i guarantee you they still criticizeit is a part of lifefrom time to time i have distributed economic advice/thoughts on this website... now i have a phd in finance from a top 5 school and i have experience in the academic, public policy and corporate world BUT many yahoos, i'm sure some in high school who don't have a clue about anything economic, bash me or argue with me when they truly don't know what they are talking aboutthey have that right and i can choose to listen to it or noteven in my professional world... I worked at the federal reserve for many years and the fed always takes criticism... many times from people who don't have the first clue about the fed's rolemy only point, these dweebs who criticize, sure they are losers... but they are fans and that is their role... it is a fact of life, get used to it... you want to talk about a dweeb, look in the mirror

los jones wrote:

it doesn't matter - the problem I have with most of you cats on Letsrun, is, most of you cats who post are dweebs, no talent or bitter folks who have never pushed the envelope, never broken 2:00 in the 800 meters but feel they have the edge on the upper echelon athlete. Man - get a life, I'm tired of hearing perspectives from guys who'll say, maybe, they'll be in Dental school next year opposed to running on the US CIRCUITS. Grow some and get some - excellence, is an aquired taste, try some time - Los

The role of the fed has been to create illegal taxes, enforced by the irs, in order to steal more and more assets from citizens.

leehamster wrote:

4. How about some snacks for sale? This is an all day event. Lack of concessions forced me and 3 other families with kids to leave after a couple of hours. Kids don't want to come back.

5. The event was free (other than $5 for parking on UW athletic grounds). With any of these amenities above, I would have happily paid a small admission fee to see this.

leehamster

The IMA has food. It's maybe a 5 minute walk from Dempsey. Not ideal, but it's not like there was no food to be found anywhere.

And I'm pretty sure you didn't even have to pay the $5 for parking. If you park in E1, you have to pay, but I parked in that lot right by the softball field (E-something), and didn't have to pay. I have never payed to park at one of the track meets.