Congrats Adams State! You Can Beat Sea-Levelers At Altitude!

...And that the two "non-altitude" runners who did score in the 5k are African's who were born and grew up at altitude. The only runner without altitude experience got last, hmmmm...

Oh get over your selves you pansies. I coached a female distance runner - almost all of whom were from sea level and she did fine. We followed the science on the subject and did not have any problems. As a matter of fact the only thing that had any affect at all was the same old stupid racing tactics.

Adams would have won that meet either way/

I agree that they would have won either way. I just think it's really stupid to host a national meet at elevation. It is not an even playing field. The worst part is that they host again next year, how did that happen?

south of the border wrote:

Oh get over your selves you pansies. I coached a female distance runner - almost all of whom were from sea level and she did fine. We followed the science on the subject and did not have any problems. As a matter of fact the only thing that had any affect at all was the same old stupid racing tactics.

Adams would have won that meet either way/

What are you trying to say above? You coached a girl most of whom were from sea level and your girl ran well?

Yeah I guess the fact that your girl ran well in a field that ran tactically (making the altitude less of a factor) proves that altitude isn't a factor for sea level trained athletes. Also, you make a good point that it doesn't matter that the meet was at elevation because as you mentioned Adams was going to win anyhow.

We should all just sit around on our hands and give into the fact that it doesn't matter where we run the meet because were just not going to win anyhow.

How does the meet reflect poorly of Colorado teams? Wouldn't it reflect poorly if they didn't take the top 3 spots?!

Quit your bitching. Whoever you are talking shit about NCAAs being at altitude you were either in the meet and did poorly, didn't even qualify, or are just some other schmuck causing a ruckus.

Who cares it's all said and done now, come outdoors (if you do qualify) you can take the Adams boys on head to head at sea level. If you don't qualify, I'm sorry for your mediocrity. If you're just some schmuck, have fun watching Adams continue to kick ass. If I'm correct they lose a few athletes after indoors, braun, medigovich? Shouldn't that make it easier on you? I'm sure I'll hear even more complaining after outdoors when you get your ass smashed in once again but hey when you get pounded in the ass by western and adams all the time who can blame you for being angry.

The sprint, hurdles and field dominant teams loved it. Meet records! So I think it was not a loss for most of the sea level schools.